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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Margins mean shit. Exxon has small margins and makes hundreds of billions a year. United Healthcare's CEO got an exit package of $1.1 billion dollars. I have a feeling that the company wasn't hurting.
Ambulance chasers are one part of why they are high. Even if you got rid of that completely, there is no reason any health insurance company would ever take on someone with a serious pre-existing condition or genetic history susceptible to illness. You can yell the talking point about torn reform all you want, but there is no way any insurance company takes on a cancer survivor and potentially puts themselves at risk for hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment.
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an insurance company making 2-3% profit isn't the reason for the costs of health care.
sorry... its just not.
easy scapegoat.
easy to point the finger at who everyone can identify is "the bad guy" because everyone has to pay for insurance, deal with insurance, gets denied coverage etc etc. much harder to convince people to blame trial attorneys when they have no obvious and clear, direct impact on peoples lives.
at the end of the day, the trial attorneys own washington and are continually fucking you up the ass while you are bent over, taking it, squealing and screaming and blaming the vaseline for not being a good enough lubricant to ease the pain.