re: #82 Thanos

I’m sorry, you’re not understanding my question:

What benefits do private health insurers provide by dint of being private? With most industries, you can point to innovations, efficiency, and benefits provided, spurred by competition, etc. But health insurance is a naturally broken market; their is active disincentive towards efficiency in payouts, and a number of other confounding factors. It’s not a normal market.

My question is what good the private health insurance industry provides, not what good health insurance provides. I’m not saying there isn’t an answer, just that I’ve never gotten one.

re: #83 Aceofwhat?

I’m saying, simply, that demanding certain things be or not be in the bill, and receiving donations from industry groups, seems innately tied to me, or at least worthy of close inspection.