The article stresses the windfalls insurers are getting through government transfers (subsidies, Medicaid, Medicare). The private market has not grown that much.
They may sing a different tune if the court cases put the kibosh on the subsidies and the states cut back on the Medicaid expansion in a few years when it starts to bust their budgets.
As Melissa Francis said (and got reprimanded at CNBC), the numbers don’t add up. You can’t add millions of unpaying customers to insurance rolls and expect that costs will go down and access will be improved.
I see; reminds me of why our emergency rooms are closing up. Required to treat any and all, with diminshing reimbursement from the state for the non-payers...