Comments on: Are health insurers due for a government takeover? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/are-health-insurers-due-for-government.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chuck Brookshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/are-health-insurers-due-for-government.html#comment-87980 Chuck Brooks Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/are-health-insurers-due-for-a-government-takeover.html#comment-87980 Health insurance companies have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not in the insurance business (i.e., spreading risk), but in the entitlement management business. They have a cozy relationship with the politicos that restrict any real competition. Their pathological aversion to innovation, or looking beyond first order effects, borders on a mix of the Keystone Kops and the Three Wise Monkeys. The insurance companies have already been effectively nationalized.<br/><br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Health insurance companies have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not in the insurance business (i.e., spreading risk), but in the entitlement management business. They have a cozy relationship with the politicos that restrict any real competition. Their pathological aversion to innovation, or looking beyond first order effects, borders on a mix of the Keystone Kops and the Three Wise Monkeys. The insurance companies have already been effectively nationalized.

Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

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