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minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up79·1 year 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-squareultranaut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up52·1 year 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-squarePrehensile_cloaca @lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-21 year 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-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoThat doesn’t count executive compensation.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year 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.