Like I said, it would probably be easier to just make health insurance like auto insurance. But I could see either working. You two are just so damn scared of a govt healthcare system, and have so much love for the private insurer's even with all the things they are doing. Kind of sums it up right there.
The most important lesson I've learned in my years of being a self-employed cabinetmaker is that you can sheer sheep over and over, but you can only skin him once. Insurance companies make a very low profit margin, a lot less than me. It behooves them, IMO, to do whatever they have to do to keep a profit. They have a responsibility to their stockholders, employees, and the like. Most companies sheer, rather than skin as it's better for business that way.
at the expense of killing people? this isn't a commodity business or a service business, they are just brokers. They do nothing, the hospitals and doctors do.
They make a large profit margin actually. Record profits this year. If they didn't how would they afford the lobbying, the company bonus's, the bribes to congress, the jets with gold silverware, on and on....
Record profits.... Their actual margin is 1 or2 percent, I make 8-10, but my volume is much lower so it appears as though they are making huge margins, when in fact they are not.
Kuzi your arguements on whether insurance is a right or a privlidge is just scewed bud. Like I said, you just don't get it. There are two views on it, as there are always, though some are more morally sound. I use to think that everyone should be in the wild themselves and if they can can take more power to them and if they can't, may the strong survive. But after serving combat tours and doing volunteer work with people who are "lazy" as puro would put it, I got over my selfishness and lack of principles. Maybe you should get out and do some volunteer work or be around these people who had their lives ruined do to the insurance companies (as an example). Making profit off of killing people is not good, no matter what business it is.
It's ironic Phebes that you seem to constantly bash the religious right for their "morality," but you seem to think your sh*t doesn't stink. Morality is a matter of opinion, and as we all know, opinions are like politicians.... They all stink. Why is your view of morality any more "right" than Jerry Fallwell's? Or Pat Robertson's? (I can't stand either one of those two either) You preach morality but bash religious morality... That seems a bit... ohhhh whats the word... hypocritical!
The most important lesson I've learned in my years of being a self-employed cabinetmaker is that you can sheer sheep over and over, but you can only skin him once. Insurance companies make a very low profit margin, a lot less than me. It behooves them, IMO, to do whatever they have to do to keep a profit. They have a responsibility to their stockholders, employees, and the like. Most companies sheer, rather than skin as it's better for business that way.
UNless the US is in another galaxy... that statement just isn't true bro'. Insurance companies make a VERY healthy profit margin. What they have is very little business expenses. They just run offices, take in premiums and payout as little as they have to in claims. Insurance of all kinds is a VERY lucrative business.
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