Comment by lotsofpulp

> That gap between the overturn rate and the appeal rate is where the profit lives.

Or doesn’t live.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...

All the other managed care organizations have similar 2% profit margins.

It is funny seeing complaints of excess profit margins from businesses earning 2%, that compete against non profits, from people on a forum composed of employees of tech businesses earning 20%+ profit margins. I wonder how much Epics’s profit margin is?

And then there is also pharmaceuticals, also earning double digit profit margins. And then the law firms in medical malpractice suits, who I imagine are not working for 2% profit margins either.