And now she's working for the very committee with the most power to give her old company and the entire industry exactly what they want: higher profits, and no competition from alternative non-profit coverage that could lower costs and premiums".
Laura Bush accused the news media today of overzealous, profit-driven coverage of her daughters, saying they should be "totally left alone".
Oberweis targets investment in companies with accelerating growth in sales and profits, little coverage by Wall Street analysts and defensible competitive positions in their respective market niches.
Under guidelines from the Swiss government, health insurers offer basic plans on a not-for-profit basis — although the companies can make a profit on supplemental coverage.
The legislation threatened to remake much of their business, with the prospect of burdensome government regulation and less profit from selling coverage to individuals and small businesses.
Typically these insurers make little or no profit on the coverage they provide because the cost of paying claims and running the company generally equals or exceeds the amount of money collected from customers.
Like shyster businessmen, they set up one firm that serves their goals, then declare it insolvent and set up another one with a different name – each time creaming the profit of press coverage and a small shift of the political landscape.
Most of the discussed limitations concern the historical data set and not the methodology itself that is likely to profit from growing coverage of digital documentation in heath business and advanced big data mining in the future.
Meanwhile, newcomers have come along, racking up profits and press coverage, and looking pretty stylish in the process.
In the absence of comprehensive reform, we should hasten the "death spiral" of private health insurance and force the industry to acknowledge that it makes profits by denying coverage to the sick.
The Government Accountability Office's investigation of for-profit colleges and coverage of it by this newspaper ("Commercial Colleges Took Bogus High School Credentials, a U.S. Inquiry Finds," news article, Nov. 23) said most proprietary universities that were investigated failed the G.A.O.'s tests of student entrance standards and academic rigor.
