Combining these balances would make priority and loss treatment ambiguous. The
design instead records each class independently, defines its eligibility for a
given loss path, and prevents one class from being represented as another.Provider capital is not a guarantee against loss. The design describes
accounting priority and risk allocation, not a promise of principal protection
or return.
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