Now, as someone in healthcare , the value chain in healthcare is completely screwed up. The folks doing God’s work - the hospitals (providers) clinicians - MDs and nurses make a 2% margin if that. The commercial insurers (payers) make a fortune in margin. There are hundreds of hospitals across the US, while there are relatively few commercial payers (Aetna, Cigna, UHG). The payers keep lowering the reimbursement rates to providers and denying coverage to the insureds. The providers have little power and aren’t sophisticated enough to negotiate effectively with the payers. I am a believer in lower taxes ; but, the payers should have to pay a windfall profit tax as their margins are obscene. As an aside, payers made a killing during COVID - premiums came in, but had to pay very few claims as there were no elective procedures. Providers had to provide care to those with Covid, but had no elective procedures. The Cares Act was the only thing that allowed providers to survive. The disproportionate profitability of the payers is evil.
But, the killer should rot in hell. He is no hero.
