XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: scharf.steven@geemail.com   
      
   On 8/12/2012 12:18 PM, 3142 Dead wrote:   
   > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:11:02 -0700, sms88 wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/12/2012 11:21 AM, 3142 Dead wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Of course, under private health care, the clinic would bill $600 for   
   >>> three minutes because they need to cover their losses from uninsured   
   >>> emergency care patients, and your insurance provider would cover that,   
   >>> and since they are a business, fight some of the items covered,   
   >>> incurring delays and expense for all sides, and then base their   
   >>> premiums on the $600, the extra caused by penny-pound scrimping, and   
   >>> then tack on 40% for profit and bonus packages for the CEO, etc.,   
   >>> effectively doubling the price of that clinic visit.   
   >>   
   >> The Kaiser-Permanente model is what we need to move to. It's not a   
   >> coincidence that all the top-rated health insurance companies are   
   >> non-profits.   
   >   
   > Obamacare's 80% rule makes that very likely.   
      
   20% is perfectly reasonable. Few companies make more than 20% after taxes.   
      
   Following the logic of the API, which claims that oil companies make   
   less than 7% profit, 20% is extremely generous.   
      
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