{"id":39991,"date":"2009-11-11T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"ebd27759-f0d5-42b7-9d73-1506b1267eaf"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:07:00","slug":"health-insurance-industry-profits-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39991","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Industry Profits Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The characterization of the health insurance industry as high-profit is &#8220;a little mystifying&#8221; and &#8220;rather silly&#8221; given that their profit margins are thin compared to other industries,\u00a0according to analysts interviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/health-insurance-profits-worth-outrage\/Story?id=9036632&amp;page=1\">ABC News<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Insurance companies are not money trees. They (go) out into the market and buy health care services and resell those services at some markup at health care consumers. I would argue that markup is not that much,&#8221; one analyst said. ABC reports, &#8220;the profit margins the health insurance companies report\u00a0\u2014 often below 5 percent\u00a0\u2014 pace some industries and lag behind many others&#8221; (Gomstyn, 11\/10). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/A3X1xFkj8Vs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The characterization of the health insurance industry as high-profit is &#8220;a little mystifying&#8221; and &#8220;rather silly&#8221; given that their profit margins are thin compared to other industries,\u00a0according to analysts interviewed by\u00a0ABC News. &#8220;Insurance companies are not money trees. They (go) out into the market and buy health care services and resell those services at some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}