{"id":604874,"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.com\/index\/604874","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Industry Profits Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"The characterization of the health insurance industry as high-profit is \"a little mystifying\" and \"rather silly\" 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>\"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,\" one analyst said. ABC reports, \"the profit margins the health insurance companies report\u00a0\u2014 often below 5 percent\u00a0\u2014 pace some industries and lag behind many others\" (Gomstyn, 11\/10). <br \/><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/A3X1xFkj8Vs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xm2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}