[Alberta's Child]

Insurance companies will always pull out of states which have populations with lower incomes and gravitate to states favorable in ‘paying’ for better coverage.

That's a no-brainer. But what's happening here is that under Obamacare, the states with lower incomes were forced to have insurance companies sell policies with mandatory coverage that was tailored to states with higher incomes. This was the equivalent of having the FAA force every airline to eliminate its coach fares and only operate passenger flights with first-class accommodations. Would anyone be surprised if every airline pulled out of Memphis and Little Rock under those conditions, and only operated out of big cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles?

[JimRed]

Would anyone be surprised if every airline pulled out of Memphis and Little Rock under those conditions, and only operated out of big cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles?

Dozens of little puddle-jumper air services would spring up overnight to serve the smaller markets, now that government is less inclined to interfere.

[CottonBall]

I must be missing something.

Don’t the subsidies make the person’s income irrelevant to the insurance companies? The insurance company gets the same amount for the same age person m whether they pay all of their premium or the taxpayers do.