[IncPen]

Which brings us to the other way you can price health insurance: mandate that insurers charge the same price to everyone, regardless of health risk. The ACA does this, with the caveat that insurers are allowed a limited degree of age-based premium variation. Under ACA rules, the insurer wouldn't be allowed to raise Rosner's premium over a C-section.

Right.

And the only feasible out come is that the insurance companies will be bankrupted, and we'll be at the mercy of the politicians.

God help us.

[USNBandit]

That and the reason the CO resident looked for for out of marketplace coverage in the first place. In certain localities in CO the rates are sky high.

[ArmstedFragg]

Under ACA rules, the insurer wouldn't be allowed to raise Rosner's premium over a C-section.

Absolutely correct, so they'll raise everyone else's rates because she had a C-section.