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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Several years ago, a BadgerCare (the State of Wisconsin's Medicaid program) administrator told me once that the program has less than 3% administrative overhead. That means that out of every dollar spent on the program, $0.97 goes to pay for Wisconsin residents' medical care. He said that private insurance companies have something closer to 30% administrative overhead. I have no idea what it is now.