• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    21 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.

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      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.

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        21 days ago

        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.

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      Not to mention the profit is on top of the costs of negotiating and processing the complex shit system that they lobbied for.