I suppose O’Malice will try to double down and tell Aetna that they can’t sell insurance in Maryland. I wonder whether that then provokes such a howl from the private market that the whole cookie crumbles.
Next step in this slow-motion catastrophe: if you sell insurance in any state, you have to sell it in all of them.
I wonder what would happen if suddenly no one at all sold health insurance? Well, I suppose that the government would have to take that task for itself...which of course is the end-game here.