Despite their many protestations, it would seem that health insurance companies have clearly chosen which master they will serve, and that master is not the policyholder. In trying to conceal this fact from policyholders, they have ended up also ...
Health insurance companies still want to convince the public that they can manage their duty to their shareholders without effecting patient care, and that they are in fact a force for good when it comes to quality of treatment and increasing health ou...
“But,” health insurance companies sometimes insist, “improving our bottom line benefits both shareholders and policyholders. By reducing the cost of health care we can both improve our bottom line and lower the cost of hea...
But health insurance companies are not only beholden to their policyholders. There is a mistress in the background to whom health insurance companies also claim loyalty: their stockholders, and their bottom line. Of course many health insur...
Health insurance today can be traced to what a wise Jewish Rabbi once pointed out what seems on reflection to be stunningly obvious: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the o...