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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 1:41:13 PM
Even Business Leaders Are Realizing Health Insurance Companies Serve No Purpose
Many are concluding that insurers actually add costs to the system and make US businesses less competitive in an increasingly global marketplace.
What is relevant is that most of us have lost faith in private health insurers and want the government to do more in health care.
This piece is part of Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All, a Truthout original series
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41974-even-business-leaders-are-realizing-health-insurance-companies-serve-no-purpose
Not long before I left my job in the insurance industry in 2008, a coworker asked our CEO during a company leadership meeting what kept him up at night. He responded with a single word that most of us, I suspect, had to look up. That word was, you guessed it, "disintermediation."
Many are concluding that insurers actually add costs to the system and make US businesses less competitive in an increasingly global marketplace.
What is relevant is that most of us have lost faith in private health insurers and want the government to do more in health care.
This piece is part of Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All, a Truthout original series
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41974-even-business-leaders-are-realizing-health-insurance-companies-serve-no-purpose
Not long before I left my job in the insurance industry in 2008, a coworker asked our CEO during a company leadership meeting what kept him up at night. He responded with a single word that most of us, I suspect, had to look up. That word was, you guessed it, "disintermediation."
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