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Insurance is a positive industry. It allows the pooling of risk to minimize individual exposure. It also is a large investor in financial and real estate markets. One would have to be rather jaded to view the health care industry as benefiting from negative outcomes. Preventative care is just one example. So much of the health care industry is related to R&D - a proactive way of dealing with negative outcomes. Education, as GCrites mentioned, is central to the Columbus economy, and it is certainly based on positives. Research at Battelle and the universities is productive in nature.