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July 6, 2012

INSURANCE MATH 101

Filed under: The Grand Circus — Tags: , — Raja @ 9:27 AM

I received this very important peice of info from my health insurance provider. I wonder they use similar math to calculate the premium and reimbursement payments!

So, what does it teach you?

  1. Irrespective of the amount of money, time, and information you have, you will always have maximum savings. In other words, whatever savings you have, is the maximum savings! Don’t try to save more.
  2. The more information you have, the less will be your maximum savings. So, try to get rid of most of the sources of information (everything other than the communications from the insurance company).
  3. But, since information = knowledge, knowledge = time, and time = money (therefore, information = money), their first equation reduces to, [money + time/money = max savings]. So, you may have infinite “max savings” if you do not have any money but have some time!
  4. From the graph, it is easy to understand that for the same amount of time spent, knowledge increases with money. Put in other words, you can buy knowledge (or degrees and certificates).
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8 Comments »

  1. hehehe………….u got’em
    the product promotion team may be flooded with micro skirts and micro brains hahahaha…………
    which insurance company is it?

    Comment by Pranay — July 6, 2012 @ 10:44 AM

    • I’m not sure about the skirts and brains :-P , but they definitely messed it up.
      It’s Medical Mutual of Ohio. Didn’t want name them in the blogpost itself

      Comment by Raja — July 6, 2012 @ 11:04 AM

  2. I came across this post on Digg. Very interesting find, I must say. You should write more often.

    Comment by Ricardo — July 6, 2012 @ 12:55 PM

    • Thanks for stopping by, and appreciating.

      Comment by Raja — July 6, 2012 @ 2:47 PM

  3. haa..haa…. i love the way you put across the most stressful of things in a funny manner…..i have been the victim of wrong investments and fear phobia of death hence putting my money in baskets which i realised after few premium payments were being used for their ACs!! anyways…loved your post …made me laugh!!

    Comment by sushmita — July 19, 2012 @ 1:29 AM

    • Well, most people ‘invest’ to make the lives of a lucky few more luxurious. You’ve done your part :-p

      Comment by Raja — July 19, 2012 @ 7:46 AM

  4. Bingo !!

    Amazing Logic guru !

    Comment by indrajitch — July 19, 2012 @ 5:15 AM


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