Soleron on 25 August 2009
In the UK we have the NHS (full state-run healthcare), and we also have private medical insurance. In 2007, a major provider of private UK healthcare, BUPA, with over 4m customers out of a population of about 60m, made £340m on revenue of £4.24b. That's an 8% profit margin.
If private care can work in a country where almost everyone uses state healthcare at state facilities, it can work in whatever system the US comes up with which will be much less nationalised and likely only focused on emergency care for the poor.
