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> better access to healthcare

If you are an entrepreneur under say 40, can’t you just roll a D10 and hope you don’t get a 1? Surely most people before middle-age won’t need expensive healthcare?




Break a leg. Catch covid.

In my case have a cognitive trouble. Allergy. All kind of disease you can catch. Breaking a tooth while tripping over something.

Being young does not isolate you. And the trip to poverty is far faster than getting out of it.


A 10% chance of a million-dollar healthcare bill you can't pay and will spend the rest of your life dealing with is still shitty odds on top of all of the other risks involved in starting a business.

Also: parents. Childbirth is expensive and most parents want some reasonable level of certainty that they can afford good healthcare for their kids. Or, to put a finer point on it, when forced to choose between health stability for their children and starting a business, most will sacrifice the latter to get the former.




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