Risk Pool

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If individuals had to pay for their healthcare costs each year without insurance, some families would become bankrupt when faced with a catastrophic illness and a very large medical bill. The insurance industry was born to help large groups of people share the risk burden each year. Each participant bears only a fraction of the total risks and costs through premium insurance payments by joining the risk pool.

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