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tclambert

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11. In America, the health insurance business model

Reply to Demeter (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 07:55 AM

Nov 2012

is to find a way to suck the highest possible premiums from healthy people, and deny coverage to anyone who might actually need healthcare.

Sickly people are a drain on profits. Healthy people who will die in sudden accidents--those are your prime customers. So the ideal insurance company would only insure weight lifters who drink and drive.

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