re: #718 jamesfirecat

I’m not suggesting we squeeze the hospitals, I say we do it to the insurance companies, the ones that are constantly raising the prices we have to pay to get the treatment, not the people who give us the treatment itself…

Hi jamesfirecat! Sorry about jumping in here, but you may not be able to squeeze health insurance companies very much either. There’s a lot of anger at the prices, but these companies have pretty slim profit margins

Fact Check: Health insurer profits not so fat

Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That’s anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.

Not sure what the answer to the overall problem with health care is, but there’s not much wiggle room here it appears.