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Health insurance profits soar

health ins profits
Source: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from industry data sources Wellpoint, Cigna, Humana and United Health.

While President Obama and Congress duke it out at the televised Health Care Summit and state lawmakers sweat how to fix insurance coverage gaps this handy chart on health insurers’ annual profits puts things into demoralizing perspective.

We, fellow policy holders, Medicare/Medicaid recipients and COBRA payees, are being punked.

About the author

Wendy Norris is the editor and publisher of Western Citizen. In 2009, I was named a fellow of the USC/Knight Digital Media Center news entrepreneur program. Contact me.

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