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Re:How much health insurers pay for almost everything is abo... by stevebmark on Saturday July 02, 2022 @01:28PM (#31960822)
From your second link, except in the last year, healthcare spend has been outpacing inflation by more than 2 to 1. The economics of scale are backwards in healthcare, I find that perverse.

UnitedHealth total comp have been rising for C levels, except the CEO who recently left, who stayed around 17mil. https://www.salary.com/tools/executive-compensation-calculat...

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Re:How much health insurers pay for almost everything is abo... by m16ghost on Monday July 04, 2022 @03:04PM (#31980640)
I think we can agree that something will need to change as medical trend cannot outpace inflation forever. I don't think the issue is with executive compensation, because even if insurance companies magically could perform all their services for free, you would only reduce premiums by less than 20%.
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