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Profits derived by insurance companies from the provision of mandatory insurance benefits were exempt from taxation. Medical facilities, physicians, and research centers had the right to own stock in health insurance ventures, thereby influencing company decisions through their private interests. Individual consumers, however, were at a disadvantage in developing a dominant interest in these ventures, which favored the control by health care providers.