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estearumyesterday at 8:34 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Health insurance is heavily regulated to ensure that there are profit caps (think 80/20 rule) this means that the company is legally compelled to actually spend a certain amount on customers of said product.

This notoriously does not work at all.

Look up pay-vider structure and the type of manipulation of medical loss ratio it enables.