More than 400% profits since the year 2001 is TOO MUCH.

Especially since, during that same time period, hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their insurance because they simply could not afford the premiums anymore.

It is repulsive that you are defending the insurance industry.

Most on the left don’t know the difference between profit and profit margin.

Profit would be money left over after costs. Yes they make billions in PROFIT every year. I agree that government is not the solution.

Any profit earned by a government mandate forcing everyone to buy a service is too much.

Can’t have competition without the ability to withdraw from a market, ie, not purchase insurance. We can all put an end to the profits in health insurance by not buying any.

If you allow them to compete across state lines, competition will lower premiums and reduce their profits. Why isn’t 0bowma looking to improve the existing system instead of creating a whole new one?

anything over .01 cent is stealing from the people. lets pay someone to pay our bills. how stupid.

I really don’t understand Americans and their paranoid ignorance.

When people who can’t afford their ridiculous premiums and have to drop dead from lack of care.

For me, it is not the amount of money they make. It is they way they increase profits by the use of death panels to deny care.

It surprises me that so many Americans seem not to be aware about Obama’s healthcare plans [a]. During the election, he campaigned for these changes stating that he felt it was unfair to have a system where insurance companies try to escape paying claims and was elected to bring in changes [b].
First of all, too many people do not know that Obama wants to make insurance more available to all. His system is similar to that which works in Holland, Taiwan [c] and Switzerland. It works there and private healthcare companies provide most the insurance to the people there.
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [d].
FACT – insurance companies admit that they push up costs, buy politicians and do not pay out for many claims when they should [e].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [f].

That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage. And no western European nation with universal healthcare has moved away from it. And the sad thing is, that the insurance companies have spent loads of money to fight these reforms [g] and loads of politicians are taking the thirty pieces of silver from them to fight the reforms, rather than fight for the health of the American people.

Remember, I back my facts up with evidence. Those who say they are wrong tend not to. If they are wrong, e-mail me with proof and let me know.