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SoCalDem

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5. Insurers were on the precipice

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 12:11 AM

Sep 2014

just about to start bleeding customers as Boomers graduated into Medicare..There is no mystery to me about how our new healthcare "system" has evolved..

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"Why Health Insurance Shareholders Are Loving Obamacare" [View all] applegrove Sep 2014 OP

This is the conclusion. applegrove Sep 2014 #1

PROFIT $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #2

For the sake of clarity, Wellpoint does not "own.......Blue Cross". WillowTree Sep 2014 #3

massive giveaway to private corporations. of course they are happy nt msongs Sep 2014 #4

Insurers were on the precipice SoCalDem Sep 2014 #5

Bingo! I had not thought of that. applegrove Sep 2014 #7

Great point Boreal Sep 2014 #12

it's also good news for people with pre-existing conditions spanone Sep 2014 #6

further making profit more and more private and risk and loss more and more public. liberal_at_heart Sep 2014 #8

and now all americans are mandated subsidize health insurance profits KG Sep 2014 #9

Weird. I was shouted down as a RW paid troll hack for saying as much during the debate. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2014 #10

Well, we couldn't have Medicare for all Boreal Sep 2014 #11

I don't know that I buy the premise of the article, at least here in Massachusetts mythology Sep 2014 #13

Look at Wall Street. Forget Obamacare, things improve under Democrats. Vinca Sep 2014 #14