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Single Payer Health Systems

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1. Corporate insurance runs with an allowed profit of 15%. Overhead is addidtional.
Reply to SLClarke (Original post)
Thu Oct 3, 2019, 07:59 AM
Oct 2019

That 15% doesn't buy you so much as a Band-aid.

Medicare runs on 3% overhead. That's overhead, not profit.

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Taxes and Health Care [View all] SLClarke Oct 2019 OP
Corporate insurance runs with an allowed profit of 15%. Overhead is addidtional. 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #1
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