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Health Insurers Gave $120 Billion To Shareholders While Denying Your Claim (www.levernews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The metric you need is what percent of revenue was used to pay doctors and hostpitals vs how much was wasted on “buisiness expenses”

Profit is just the leftovers that they couldnt figure out how to spend before tax time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Pretty well what I said with regards to the above bottom line. I know someone has put out some nice pie chart at some point to say what % of your premium dollar goes to what, will have to try and track one down.