Big Ins isn’t dumb enough to sign onto something that guarantees their death.
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Agree, Big Ins is a ‘partner’ with Big Gov.
The supporting systems underlying Obamacare are exceedingly complex with myriad interfaces. It remains to be seen if the system can cope with the massive complexity and security challenges. I’m not convinced that the system will be able to handle it.
It’s interesting to me that not all of the big insurers jumped into the exchanges head first. I’d love to know what the CEO of Cigna thinks about the whole thing. Did Cigna stay out with the anticipation of a huge fail? The promise of a bailout was not enough to lure them all in, unless there is a behind the scenes promise of future payouts. Like maybe Cigna will get a huge batch of ex-employer insured customers later in the year.
There was another big one who I noticed did not set up exchange plans. I want to guess Unitedhealth but I can’t remember now.