Insurance companies benefit from Advantage plans, not patients

Regarding The Herald's coverage of the disagreement between Everett Clinic and Regence's Medicare Advantage plans, whenever the profit motive enters the equation, the patient is always the one that suffers ("In Medicare Advantage stalemate, Everett Clinic patients left in limbo," The Herald, Jan. 10).

For-profit corporations exist for one reason: to make as much profit as possible. There are two ways to do this: (1) Charge as much as you can for the product and/or service you provide; (2) pay as little as possible for the labor and products that go into the product/service you provide.

Medicare Advantage is all about delaying and denying health care coverage to its policyholders. Shame on them.

Jim Cronin

Mukilteo