{"id":1299,"date":"2009-10-25T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2009-10-25T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:49:30","slug":"why_we_need_to_pay_attention_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need To Pay Attention To What We Are Not Being Told About Greedy Insurance Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/25\/ap-finally-reports-on-insurance-industrys-thin-margins\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article today about the profit margins of the insurance companies that the Democrats have so often characterized as greedy.&nbsp; It turns out that according to their annual reports, health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two.&nbsp; Last year they were very low.&nbsp; Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the latest annual measure. That doesn&#8217;t seem particularly greedy to me.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, trial lawyers showed <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/10\/cbo-tort-reform-would-save-54-billion-to-the-deficit\/\">a profit margin of almost 14%<\/a>,&nbsp; I have never heard Democrats demonize trial lawyers because of their profit margin, despite the fact that it is more than six times the profit margin of insurance companies.&nbsp; Donations by trial lawyers comprise a major part of Democrat fund raising, so I guess it&#8217;s ok for them to have a large profit margin.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, next time you hear the Democrats talk about the greedy insurance companies, think about the greedy trial lawyers who support the Democrat party!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air&nbsp;posted an article today about the profit margins of the insurance companies that the Democrats have so often characterized as greedy.&nbsp; It turns out that according to their annual reports, health insurance profit margins typically run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}