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- Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:56:10 -0800 (PST), Ron Peterson
And a considerable amount of effort is going into claims analysis and
finding ways to deny coverage. Imagine when that goes away.
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"Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord
of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:56:10 -0800 (PST), Ron Peterson
Actually it does as the pool that is uncovered is by and large far
healthier.
That's why prices are going up so right now. With millions unemployed
the well drop coverage as their COBRA payments are so expensive. The
sick know they need to maintain that coverage and find a way to pay. - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
This is a moronic posting.
Most of the potential profits are paid off in excessive salary demands
of the chief execs and the top doctors that
own the businesses.
It should clang warning bells that the margins are so uniform across
the industry.
But whilst you are there check out the pharms. industry at 20% and - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
Clearly when bypasses and stents stop people dying of heart attacks,
that means that medical inflation will always be higher than overall inflation.
There are some exceptions, most obviously with vaccination that
radically reduces the cost of treating those who get say polio but
who dont die of it, but there arent many examples like that anymore. - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
jane wrote:
You are mindlessly over simplifying.
Nope.
Have fun explaining why it hasnt in Japan.
Pity that is so rare that its completely irrelevant to what is being discussed.
Nope. There is no single buyer.
And Japan makes control of costs work fine. Not only is there no
waiting time at all, you dont even have to have a referral to see - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
No, he is a smart businessman. He wouldn't produce at a loss and
instead cut his losses and did something else. That is what liberals
miss when they say, "the rich can afford the taxes." At some point
the "rich guy" will say, "the hell with all this. I'll just retire or
work less." Then jobs are lost. - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
Since you are not as dysfunctional as jane (I know, faint praise),
perhaps you could go back to my original post replying to jane on
March 9 and the subsequent one and then you would understand the
point. It seems to me one of the least controversial things I've ever
posted.
-tg - Re: Where's Waldo? / Brad Guth and planet Venus
It seems whenever there’s an actual image that simply can not be
banished or its authenticity disputed, as containing what looks
perfectly clear enough as though including a good number of artificial
items, and especially those items of such good enough dimensional size
and rational community like infrastructure, is when all the usual - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
Would you care to explain that. A number of anti-hypertension
medicines are going generic this year which will reduce health care
costs.
Other advances in radiation therapy (e.g. Tomotherapy) reduce the
harmful effects of radiation therapy reducing hospital stays. - THE MURDER OF KING TUT -HUMAN NATURE HAS NOT CHANGED.
VERY INTERESTING
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The past unearthed. - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
In article
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Hospitals overcharge as a matter of habit and leave it to the insurance
companies to whack those charges back. That mediation requires people
and people are expensive. - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits BINGO!
- Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
Increasing the risk pool size doesn't reduce costs.
Reducing the amount of paper work (OK, it's computer work now) will
reduce costs for both the insurance plan and the providers. The 25%
(not sure of the right number) difference between insurance plan
revenue and payout indicates a problem at the insurance end, but there - Re: On those excessive health insurance company profits
You are making this overly complex with your thoughts about multi-
national corporations and exchange rate issues.
It is a very simple issue of cost to revenue ratio. If you
artificially set either the cost or the revenue, then the other of the
two has to give.
In this example, the buyer artificially dictated the revenue for the - Re: Google screwing small businesses
Hey Pat,
please make sure the spoon you use for the gnocchi is wooden.