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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    80·
    21 天前

    “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.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
      53·
      21 天前

      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.

      • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        21 天前

        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.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      21 天前

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