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more people buying porn memberships don't make the cost go down.
if you have a paysite and tomorrow get 1 million new subscribers, are you going to drop your price? of course not. why should you?
if you don't pay your insurance premium, doesn't your insurance "go away"? don't you need to "replenish" it every month with more money?
it is a product Doc.
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Costs have come down on porn memberships. No, because I would have a direct cost and not pure profit before cost. You replenish a service, which isn't a product.
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is your Internet service cheaper now than it was in the early 90s?
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Between $3k and $100k a month cheaper.
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is your phone service cheaper now?
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I've saved $10,000's moving to Vonage. My cell service years ago was $100's a month, my wifes is $100 a month.
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are the phones themselves cheaper today?
no.
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Extremely... you can get them free now.
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i don't care how corporations absorb or reduce rates for individual people.
is health insurance cheaper now than it was in the past?
no.
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Do they have less people than in the past covered? Yes...
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so then what is your solution? have everyone on earth work for one massive corporation?
that is unfortunate.
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Nope... First our gov needs to reduce in size, greatly. Then increase in proper areas rather than bullshit ones. Regulate the industry, profits and cost of goods. Regulate the legal side of the problem. Regulate the costs of insurance on doctors/hospitals. Then either the gov does it directly or regulates a public option, that people can opt-in to that is funded by those people, insurance companies, public money/donations, bonds, Companies could get lower capital gains taxes by using using/funding the public option. And I'm sure lots of other ways I can't think of.
I also support extremes like mandatory drug tests, fitness requirements, etc or you're taxed more.
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correct, but insurance companies are not the answer.
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Either way, it's more Gov control, more gov regulation, more gov dipping into the free market. No insurance, will require huge oversight on overall industry rather than controlling just them which can regulate for gov - rather than gov having to explode in size for the overall industry regulation.