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In reply to the discussion: Aetna Health Insurance will double Revenues to $100 billion by 2020 thanks to Obamacare [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)18. Anyone who flies on an airliner flies on a private/public partnership.
Virtually every airliner body and every airliner engine is built by the US and European Military Industrial Complex (Boeing, Airbus, General Electric, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney).
There are upwards limitations on insurance company profitability, but no floors in the ACA. No insurance company is guaranteed any profit. They have to compete against one another. If they don't draw enough customers and efficiently run their business, they'll go broke.
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Aetna Health Insurance will double Revenues to $100 billion by 2020 thanks to Obamacare [View all]
ErikJ
Dec 2013
OP
Fucking parasites. Abolish insurance companies; institute national health care. That is all.
Comrade Grumpy
Dec 2013
#1
Because a single payer national health care program was ''off the table'' thanks Obama
YOHABLO
Dec 2013
#4
Isn't there a part in Obamacare where they can only net a certain percentage?
uppityperson
Dec 2013
#5
there is a word for a partnership between the corporations and the government...
Jesus Malverde
Dec 2013
#6
So you understand that the provision you cite doesn't guarantee profitability
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#34
No, it doesn't guarantee profits it all. It guarantees they won't lose money
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#36
"Aetna said it expected to re-enter a period of normal growth following years of ACA pressures"
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#13