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consensus1yesterday at 4:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

Total profits for US health insurance companies in 2025 were $50 billion. The other $950 billion has got to come from cutting:

1. money to providers

2. overall healthcare consumption

3. bureaucratic redundancy and waste

1 is going to piss off medical providers. 2 is going to piss of the general public. 3 is going to piss off the 20 million healthcare industry workers who are not direct care providers. So pick your poison. This is why it will never pass.


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chapsyesterday at 4:33 PM

Have you ever dared to dream of something that sounds impossible but isn't?

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Hikikomoriyesterday at 4:49 PM

And overhead of running the insurance company like salary and office, then wasted time for doctors.