Comments on: Increasing health care costs http://www.medrants.com/archives/2127 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: phil morris http://www.medrants.com/archives/2127/comment-page-1#comment-4848 phil morris Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:29:18 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2004/10/15/increasing-health-care-costs/#comment-4848 DB come to Canada. DB come to Canada.

]]> By: Machi http://www.medrants.com/archives/2127/comment-page-1#comment-4795 Machi Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:32:47 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2004/10/15/increasing-health-care-costs/#comment-4795 Why do we all (Kevin, DB, Kerry, Bush, NEJM, etc) insist on talking about medical costs driving insurance premiums and never point to the possibility of insurance company greed driving medical costs? Do we really think they are so innocent? Read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/business/18insure.html QUOTE: "The Marsh executive asked the insurance company in an e-mail message to send someone to a meeting to pretend to make a bid for an insurance policy being sought by a customer - even though Marsh had already decided to steer the business to another insurer that agreed to pay a kickback to Marsh." [Not a health insurance deal but still - same greedy industry] Machi Why do we all (Kevin, DB, Kerry, Bush, NEJM, etc) insist on talking about medical costs driving insurance premiums and never point to the possibility of insurance company greed driving medical costs? Do we really think they are so innocent? Read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/business/18insure.html
QUOTE:
“The Marsh executive asked the insurance company in an e-mail message to send someone to a meeting to pretend to make a bid for an insurance policy being sought by a customer – even though Marsh had already decided to steer the business to another insurer that agreed to pay a kickback to Marsh.”

[Not a health insurance deal but still - same greedy industry]

Machi

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