Needed: Reliable info about % health care premiums that pay for health care

[Guest guest]

Could anyone give me reliable sources that tell how much of health care

premiums actually pay for health care and how much goes for getting the money

from insurance companies, advertising, profit, and other expenses that wouldn't

be needed with universal health care?

I heard a person say only 80% actually went for health care. This quote

from Tim Bolen says only 9% of health insurance premiums was available to pay

claims. I would think it would be somewhere between these 2 figures. Please

help me find the correct figures. Other accurate figures that show the waste

in our current health care system would also be very helpful.

Thanks!

Karen

_http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/health%20freedom1.htm_

(http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/health%20freedom1.htm)

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

The _US healthcare system _

(http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/american%20health%20system.htm) is

falling in on itself, and it is about time.

Change is in the air, and it won't take long. Rated 72nd in quality

worldwide - but number one in cost, it has become the number one killer of

Americans. ......................

Last year, for instance, the average cost for health insurance per employee

to a US company was $14,700. By my calculations, only about nine (9) percent

of health insurance premiums was available to pay claims. The rest went

into the mega-greedy maw of the marble-buildinged health insurance suck-a-thon.