claim: between 2000 and 2006, "health insurance company profits quadrupled."
author: chris van hollen
evidence_1: may 1, 2012 ... the persistence of this trend suggests systematic differences between health care and other economic sectors where growth rates are typically more in line .... net cost of private insurance (including administrations costs, additions to reserves, rate credits and dividends, premium taxes, and profits or losses).
evidence_2: jan 19, 2011 ... "i'm interested to hear my colleagues say that they can identify with all the problems in the health care system," van hollen said from the floor of the house. "between the year 2000 and 2006, premiums in this country doubled, health insurance company profits quadrupled, and this congress did nothing."
evidence_3: sep 14, 2016 ... in 2016, the average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance are $6,435 for single coverage and $18,142 for family coverage. ... exhibit a: average annual firm and worker premium contributions and total premiums for covered workers for single and family coverage, by plan type, ...
evidence_4: last year which is a uk company that sells wholesale pharmaceuticals as well as health and beauty products. ... walmart) or pharmacy benefit managers that act as a subdivision of a major health insurance company. ... prescription drug sales between 2000 and 2014 and more than quadrupled their number of retail.
evidence_5: oct 26, 2017 ... between 1993 and 2010, prices rose by an average of 6.4 percent a year. in the early 1990s, health insurance companies tried to control costs by spreading the use of hmos once again. congress then tried to control costs with the balanced budget act in 1997. instead, it forced many health care providers ...