I’m not talking about Kaiser. I’m talking about companies like UnitedHealth Group Incorporated who own UnitedHealthcare the insurance company and Optum the healthcare provider.

> That being said, insurers do compete on price so they lose customers if they charge more than other insurers.

Yeah but that’s a second order effect. Most companies are incentivized to cut costs because they will directly realize the profit. Insurance companies are incentives to cut costs only to grow market share.

I understand the point of the profit limits, but I don’t think it works very well in practice. I think it would probably be better to just have private companies without that profit cap and add a government insurer to compete with them.

Right, but the article was about Kaiser and I was talking about the thing the article was about.