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That's all true, but even gigantic insurance companies are sometimes overwhelmed by a surge in claims. Is that fraud too?

People need to understand that insurance is a kind of gambling -- a bet that claims won't wipe out the fund pool, that a random act of nature won't undermine the actuarial assumptions on which the pool is designed.



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