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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I were triply-screwed by health care insurance . . . [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)60. Can you support your claim that Health Insurance is not making as much as they used to?
The Insurance Industry is doing better than ever.
They will soon be sucking up $BILLIONS$ in tax payer funded subsidies every year,
and with mandated "customers" and a guaranteed 20% Rake Off, they are going to be cruising at the heights of their
incestuous 1st Cousin,...Wall Street.
We will have to wait and see exactly how big a pile they will be "making" (making in quotes because this worthless industry doesn't really "make" anything) since it will take a couple of years to see how it plays out.
The Smart Money believes that the Health Insurance Industry is going to "make" a pile.
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It's a question I've asked myself 2-1/2 times over each month for the past 20 years. . .
Journeyman
Dec 2013
#8
Which is why Obamacare provides massive tax-credits for the working poor...
ConservativeDemocrat
Dec 2013
#30
Can you support your claim that Health Insurance is not making as much as they used to?
bvar22
Dec 2013
#60
Your message is "the ACA helps the insurance companies and not the rest of us".
riqster
Dec 2013
#54
I won't even start to say what the infernal 'free market' health insurance con did to my family...
freshwest
Dec 2013
#11
older people making over 400% FPL really get nailed. I've mentioned this numerous times.
antigop
Dec 2013
#15
I got beaten up over this a few weeks ago. My wife and I make a hair over the $72K cutoff
Flatulo
Dec 2013
#49
Should sign the "waiting list" to get on fox-nonsense to share your horror story...
Hulk
Dec 2013
#16
Makes me wish like hell our Dems would start pushing memes and framings about the GOP - like
calimary
Dec 2013
#22
I am glad for you, but the ACA is not an incremental step forward toward health care
Doctor_J
Dec 2013
#23
1200 a month is still a grand theft. It's better than before but that doesn't mean it's good.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#24
As I pointed out upthread, I'm just some schlub from the Southland, trying to get by . . .
Journeyman
Dec 2013
#25