<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1a2dada0-600c-461f-b0c5-5226f9ca5c7b/24A8415F-BF61-4756-830E-1DC6BD397836/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><H1 id="yn-story-title">FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/9A8694C3-0D0E-4E97-AF18-1560B957A052" alt="AP" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><P>WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_0" class="yshortcuts">construction machinery</SPAN>, <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_1" class="yshortcuts">Tupperware</SPAN>, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_2" class="yshortcuts">Yahoo</SPAN>? Answer: They're all more profitable than the <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_3" class="yshortcuts">health insurance industry</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><P>In the <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_4" class="yshortcuts">health care debate</SPAN>, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><P>Ledgers tell a different reality. <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_5" class="yshortcuts">Health insurance profit</SPAN> margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><SPAN id="lw_1256571024_13" class="yshortcuts">Health insurers</SPAN> posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance"><P><SPAN id="lw_1256571024_15" class="yshortcuts">HealthSpring</SPAN>, the best performer in the <SPAN id="lw_1256571024_16" class="yshortcuts">health insurance industry</SPAN>, posted 5.4 percent. That's a less profitable margin than was achieved by the makers of Tupperware, Clorox bleach and Molson and Coors beers.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24A8415F-BF61-4756-830E-1DC6BD397836/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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