Popular content  Health Insurers Pump Your Premiums Into a
Financial Black Hole  Ever wonder what happens to the premiums
you pay for your health insurance?  You might be surprised to
learn that more and more of the dollars you pay for coverage are
being sucked into a kind of black hole.   It doesn't really
disappear, of course. It just doesn't do you a bit of good --
unless, of course, you believe it is to your advantage that it
ultimately winds up in the bank accounts of a few investors and
insurance company executives, including those who have to power
to deny coverage for potentially life-saving care.  If you've
been paying attention to what health insurance company CEOs have
been saying to Wall Street over the past several months, you
will know that they are spending more and more of their firms'
cash -- which comes from you, of course -- to "repurchase" their
firms' stock. And Wall Street absolutely loves that.  I once
handled financial communications for CIGNA. So I knew that
whenever the company could