Data pulled from Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue ; visual made by me

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  1. Not a comment on the graph itself – but I wonder if and when Walmart or Amazon will become the first company to hit *$1 trillion* in annual revenue. Though they would have to grow another 60% larger from today to get there.

  2. Did you intentionally conflate revenue and profit, or was it a mistake?

    Because the profit graph is **very** different.

    Edit: Weirdly, there’s not a rule for ‘intentionally misleading information’

  6. Revenue would make sense if we think of them as middle men. Should we have to spend this much on health care is a different point.

    Also the decimals is silly when you are showing everything as ‘millions’ and not a single item even shows decimals other than ’00’

    If you really want to make it interesting, have it be a stacked bar with one being net profits embedded in the revenue bar.

  8. Health insurance companies have particularly high revenue because all they do is take in money via premiums and government funding and repay most of it. It’s like if bank deposits counted towards revenue.

  9. Top line revenue by itself, while indicating that a lot of money is being spent in healthcare, is not as meaningful in the context of a debate about healthcare value. This should be just one data point. What’s also important is the cost overhead and also health outcomes. I don’t have those numbers at hand but they aren’t good when it comes to American private health insurance.

  10. Fuck all of them. Every one of them. No one needs millions. Unpopular opinion, but there should be a legal wage cap.

  11. that doesn’t have to be a problem, but if you look at their margins, it is.

    there is a reason healthcare almost everywhere is essentially commoditized and taken mostly out of the market… because market inefficiencies here kill people

  12. I know it’s trendy to hate health insurance companies right now but honestly, some of that blame needs to hit the hospitals and pharmacies as well.

    There’s a reason medical coverage is a pain in the ass and so expensive. They would lower their costs and stop fighting people over everything if hospitals weren’t charging 100k for a surgery and a few days stay.

    [Or 150k for a rattlesnake bite](https://www.reddit.com/r/PacificCrestTrail/comments/zp5vyg/bill_for_treatment_of_a_rattlesnake_bite_in_the/?rdt=62466)

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