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Originally Posted by aceventura3
You use the term or concept "play around", I would not. The industry is heavily regulated, and the numbers are looked at very closely by independent rating agencies. In addition they have outside analysts looking at the numbers, investors and other stake holders parse the numbers and ask questions. So, to a degree they can try to justify certain assumptions that may be favorable to a short-term political agenda, but those assumptions have to stand up to scrutiny. Please understand I am not for a minute saying I would blindly trust the numbers from a large corporation, just like I question government I question corporate rhetoric - I read the fine print and footnotes, regardless.
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Do you understand what I said? Im not going to discuss minutiae with you. The point, which is yet to be acknowledged or understood, is that health care insurers are making a lot of money, a top 5 industry over the past decade, when you actually look at return on investment. The only things more profitable over the past decade were construction (which we all now know was a bubble) and related oil industries (as we reached near all time highs in prices of oil).
Do you understand that?