“Health Insurance was not always ‘for profit’. That started during Reagan, not surprisingly, when Blue Cross went from ‘not for profit’ to ‘for profit’. That's when insurance went from a means to process medical claims to a system to withhold care and let people die for profits.” -Henry Rosenberg
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We went from indemnity insurance that covered 80% of costs at an MD we chose (like Medicare does) to for-profit “managed care”😡plans.
A connection?
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/07/20/presidents-and-their-debts-fdr-to-bush/reagans-deficit-dreamscape
There's a learning curve for that site but...here:
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=H04
Or so I've heard.