Think Progress: Private Insurers in Health Insurance Exchanges Stand to Gain $200 Bill by 2019

[amborin]

Health Insurers Stand To Gain $200 Billion From Affordable Care Act’s Exchanges

By Igor Volsky on Jul 14, 2011 at 10:01 am

A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that far from “ending” the private health sector — as some GOP opponents of the Affordable Care Act predicted — Obama’s health care reform law will actually serve as a boon to private insurers, confirming fears that excluding the public option from the final bill could undermine affordability.

According to the new report, the law’s state-based health care exchanges provide private insurers with a lucrative new market in which they stand to gain up to $200 billion in revenue by 2019:



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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/07/14/269187/health-insurers-gain-from-exchanges/

[fascisthunter]

1. but more people are insured

nice trap isn't it? This country is totally corrupt to the core.

[Divernan]

2. Corrupt at the top, and then it's trickle down corruption.

[slipslidingaway]

3. knr nt

[Divernan]

4. Some starry eyed supporter will tell us Obama is just APPEARING to help Big Health Insurers

See, in 8 years, when they've made an additional $200 billion, THEN he'll have them right where he wants them!

[ixion]

5. Thank Goodness the Insurance Industry Profit Protection Act Passed!

:sarcasm:

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. Why we didn't get a public option. Who runs the US gov't? Corprats. n/t

[slipslidingaway]

7. kick nt