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minus-square@DaddleDewlink79•7 days ago “The people in our industry are mission-driven professionals working to make coverage and care as affordable as possible" That $358 Billion profit they’ve registered in 2023 says a lot about how much all those “efficiency” savings are being passed to their customers.
minus-square@ultranautlink52•7 days agoI think that’s the revenue number and profit was around $20 billion. Which is still an incomprehensible amount of money that could have been spent on actual healthcare instead of extracted from their victims.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•edit-27 days ago20 thousand million dollars is an incomprehensible number. Let alone to profit for healthcare. A functional government would have regulated the entire industry into something reasonable and sustainable decades ago.
minus-squaresnooggumslinkEnglish19•7 days agoNot to mention the profit is on top of the costs of negotiating and processing the complex shit system that they lobbied for.
That $358 Billion profit they’ve registered in 2023 says a lot about how much all those “efficiency” savings are being passed to their customers.
I think that’s the revenue number and profit was around $20 billion. Which is still an incomprehensible amount of money that could have been spent on actual healthcare instead of extracted from their victims.
20 thousand million dollars is an incomprehensible number. Let alone to profit for healthcare.
A functional government would have regulated the entire industry into something reasonable and sustainable decades ago.
That doesn’t count executive compensation.
Not to mention the profit is on top of the costs of negotiating and processing the complex shit system that they lobbied for.