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There's pretty universally much more demand for doctors than supply. And insurance companies, the other major power that's, to an upsetting degree, "running the

There's pretty universally much more demand for doctors than supply. And insurance companies, the other major power that's, to an upsetting degree, "running the show" would love for everyone to be perfectly healthy so they can collect premiums and never pay out.

tbrownaw 1y ago
> so they can collect premiums and never pay out That's not actually a thing. A very high portion of premiums always has to be paid out. Not just because the regulators said so (IIRC the requirement is a 90% or 95% loss ratio?), but because they'd be undercut by a competitor long before they got in regulatory trouble.