[lbo-talk] Doug on nationalizing the health insurance companies

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 09:49:58 PDT 2009


On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I just got around to hearing this show which was first podcast last week.
> It's hard to believe it hasn't been posted to lbo-talk, but I haven't seen
> it and didn't find it in an archive search.  So just in case other people
> also overlooked a point that deserves more circulation:

Yes! I meant to post this as well, with a question....


>   A friend pointed out to me the other day that the market
>   capitalization--the value of all the outstanding stock--of the publicly
>   traded health insurers is about $150 billion.

Maybe I don't have the head for this, but that sounds really small. Who all would that include?

-- Andy



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