Do you think health insurance companies are in the business of providing health care?

or are they in the business of denying health care? They only make money when they deny health care. Would not health care costs drop if we eliminated this unnecessary middle man?
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Most health insurance companies are businesses, and are there to make money. There are some not for profit health insurance providers, but they're still businesses, and they still have to bring in money to cover operating expenses. There is a growing trend in the medical business, cash only doctors. Without all the overhead and middlemen to deal with their services cost less than those of doctors participating in managed care contracts. That may be the way to make health care affordable, get rid of the insurance companies.
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