Reply #56: In the big picture of health care, they don't.

[Uncle Joe]

Private "health" insurance is a leech on the system bleeding precious dollars, energy and time away from health care and toward entities that contribute nothing to health care, whether it's toward a fractured insurance bureaucracy with a thousand hoops for medical staff to jump through, gamblers, aka; shareholders or redundant salary and bonuses paid to themselves.

This privatized, for profit health insurance system is dysfunctional, illogical and forcing the American People to reward this industry is a travesty in its' own right.

Thanks for the thread, Better Believe It.