"Soon after the ACA was passed, Democrats started calling it ‘universal healthcare.’ If it weren’t for the 30% – 40% of claims that don’t get paid because there is no entity with the power to make insurance companies do so, they might have an argument. What is particularly galling about the effort is that the long history of predatory behavior by the insurance industry was available to anyone who cared to look."
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/rob-urie-politics-by-other-means-health-insurance-industry-edition.html
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