> As someone else pointed out the insurance industry’s profits account for a grand total of 3% of expenditures. The insurance industry profit is not a meaningf

> As someone else pointed out the insurance industry’s profits account for a grand total of 3% of expenditures. The insurance industry profit is not a meaningful number in this context. Profits are only what is left over after all expenses are deducted. These expenses include all the operating costs of the medical insurance industry (salaries of all employees, massive CEO bonuses, real estate costs and on and on and on). Every penny of those costs are unnecessary overhead. All those (hundreds of) thousands of administrators and CEOs getting bonuses are not providing any health care to anyone, only adding overhead to the system. They feed off the work of doctors, nurses and medical staff but don't provide any value. So the number to look at is the total gross revenue of all medical insurance companies. All that money could be saved by simply eliminating the insurance industry middleman and paying medical staff (those who actually directly contribute to providing health care) directly.