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To be fair, they play a shell game by steering people towards their subsidiary owned medical providers (avoiding loss ratio limits of 15% to 20% by putting the
by tomrod 2y ago
To be fair, they play a shell game by steering people towards their subsidiary owned medical providers (avoiding loss ratio limits of 15% to 20% by putting the money into providers, which have no profit cap).[0]
[0] https://pnhp.org/news/insurers-avoid-loss-ratio-limits-by-shifting-profits-to-provider-subsidiaries/ https://pnhp.org/news/insurers-avoid-loss-ratio-limits-by-sh...
- anomaly_ 2y agoYea, and after all that they still only eked out a 4% net profit after tax for 2024.
- tfehring 2y agoThe 6.0% margin (for UnitedHealthGroup as a whole) already includes that. UnitedHealthcare (the subsidiary health insurer) had a slightly lower operating margin of 5.6% in Q3. https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/investors/2024/UNH-Q3-2024-Release.pdf https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/invest...