rssFeinstein: All Health Insurance Should Be Nonprofit
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:21 pm
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TWI reader ajm8127 wrote in this afternoon with a thought on the insurance industry: “For profit health care insurance providers are a conflict of interest.”
Well, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) agrees.
During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on insurers’ anti-trust exemption status, the California Democrat blasted away at the industry, saying it “lacks a moral compass” and puts a lust for profits above the needs of patients.
Premiums are out of hand. I think CEO salaries are out of hand. I think administrative costs, running about 23 percent, are out of hand.
My bottom line belief is that the health care medical insurance industry should be nonprofit in the United States. And the more I read about other countries, the more this view is supported in my own mind.
Needless to say, Feinstein has endorsed the proposal to scale back the industry’s anti-trust exemptions.
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Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 11:51 pm
Really? I wonder if she feels the same about her war profiteering:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/10/11/d…
Probably not because well it's called “war profiteering” and she's making the profits.
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Comment posted October 16, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
But, doesn't every government contractor have a spouse on the intelligence and appropriations committees? Be a lot more profitable if they did…
Comment posted April 20, 2011 @ 4:46 pm
I read on here about the industry in general, that the companies put profits first and force sick people to go without insurance because they don’t want to pay for their health care.
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