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cpburns2009yesterday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Profit margins are capped by percentage. That creates the perverse intensive for insurance companies to pursue ever increasing costs in order to increase profits.


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arsyesterday at 7:34 PM

You are forgetting about competition, increasing costs means directly increasing premiums, and higher premiums means lower business.

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