An Inconvenient Truth

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Originally Posted by Hog1

Honestly, I believe that with this kind of $$$ involved, and the types of profits being realized by the insurance companies, to surmise there are no bad guys reaping gigantic gains is rather naive. With money "driving the whole issue" you can.............."bank" on there being bad guys

No I don't think it naive. Notice I didn't there are bad guys but rather there aren't groups of these guys meeting on Friday night to play poker and figure out other devious ways to make money. There are bad guys everywhere in all walks of life. I think I just didn't make it clear that as far as insurance companies go they aren't really the bad guys in and of themselves. They exist to make money. Nothing else. Their service is designed to make them money. Making money isn't some nice little offshoot of it.

I come from the mindset that companies are in business to operate efficiently and make money. I think this because it is the ultimate motivation for them to do a good job(not that they do but at least the environment is created so that they can). When they have the motivation taken away them they don't even have the chance to do a good job because why would they?

I don't begrudge any company from making money. As it is, to me, there's no economic system that will satify the wants and needs of everyone without flaws. I think that is the main reason that there isn't a healthcare system in the world that works 100%

As bad as our system seems to work all the state run healthcare systems around world have problems that, while different from ours, are in most cases just as serious.