Here are some of the things insurance companies are getting out of the House bill:

[ProSense]

• Increase in the percentage of each dollar that must be directed to care.
  
  
• Loss of anti-trust exemption
  
  
• Increase in number of people getting insurance, including those they can no longer drop based on a pre-existing condition (begins n 2010), but excluding those who sign up for a public option.
  
  
• Potential loss of more customers as access to the exchange expands and more people are given the choice of a public option.
  
  
• More people moved to Medicaid.

This is why insurer's are against the bill: it squeezes their profits and holds them accountable.






edited typo

[spotbird]

1. Watch insurance stocks on Monday

I suspect investors will see it differently.

[ProSense]

2. The proof will be in the pudding. n/t

[quiet.american]

3. Stop making sense, ProSense! Don't you know the sky is falling! ;) nt

[Go2Peace]

4. UNREC for Spamming OPs

[eppur_se_muova]

5. DON'T DO THAT!! I almost clicked on the 'unrec' button!

Fortunately, quick reflexes narrowly prevented a tragedy.