(separately, profit capping rules means that once a monopoly is cemented, once a company has moved as much as it can from one pocket to the other, there's an internal incentive to spend money on bureaucracy).
(separately, profit capping rules means that once a monopoly is cemented, once a company has moved as much as it can from one pocket to the other, there's an internal incentive to spend money on bureaucracy).
This is nonsense. UNH’s profit margin is all net income divided by all revenue.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...
Same with Elevance, CVS, Cigna, Humana, Centene, and Molina. There is a reason all these businesses aren’t at the top of the market cap rankings. Not even in the top 100.
UNH is up there due to sheer size and the fact that they sell high profit margin software and healthcare. Otherwise, you will not get rich starting a managed care organization. Even Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, and Jamie Dimon ran away with their tail between their legs: