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My point still holds. The use of the word combined is both misleading and incorrect. I believe what you meant was that it is 1.7* higher than the average of the private insurers.

Also Medicare provides coverage for 43M Americans. Approximately 250M Americans have health insurance. Why are all the other insurers on that list's total claims only a third of medicares total claims?