@Schouten_B @QasimRashid I don't agree that margins are the correct way to measure health insurance companies. Many things can impact margins including staffing, compensation, etc.
How many people were denied treatments, procedures, medicine, etc. that falls within the range of "common practice" in other industrialized countries?
@gpilz @QasimRashid The Essential Health Benefits -have- to be covered under the ACA. For other treatments it becomes more complicated, and it differs per country. The Netherlands essential benefits (the ones all insurers have to reimburse) for example do not reimburse lymph duct reconstruction after lymphadenectomy. The Germany essential benefits to include it. Who's wrong and who's right? Hard to say. QOL improvements are real.