Comment by awongh

I’m not an expert but I’m wary of anyone who has a simplistic view of what seems to be a complex system. This, plus looking at the profit margin of UHC paints a more nuanced picture (net profit margin is not that high. the dollar amount is high because the scale of the company is big). (Not that I want to make money from denying people healthcare, no matter how much internal logic there is to it…)

But it does seem like there’s a serious prisoners dilemma type situation going on in American health care. It’s easy to point fingers at someone else.

The situation is also coupled with a toxic political environment where a Trump voter can simultaneously be against “Obamacare” and think that Trump is going to improve access to healthcare, and a Harris voter can be pro Obamacare and ignore regulatory capture by pharmaceutical companies- e.g., both sides so convinced they’re right and the other side is wrong they won’t be seen to agree on anything common sense.