Chủ Nhật, 12 tháng 1, 2014

Humana says "Ruh Roh"

Forbes' Avik Roy notes that Humana has expressed concern over the mix of business in its Exchange plans. Specifically, that young and/or healthy consumers are staying away from these plans in droves:

"Humana “now expects the risk mix of members enrolling through the health insurance exchanges to be more adverse than previously expected.”

That's worrisome for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the so-called "risk corridor," which is essentially a giant re-insurer or, in English, "thee and me." Briefly, if carriers suffer significant losses as a result of the Guaranteed Issue/No Pre-Ex Exclusion nature of the ObamaTax, you and I get to bail them out.

How lovely for them.

That Humana is signalling so early that this is already a probability does not bode well for those of us who actually pay taxes [ed:and, as Bob correctly notes in the comments, premiums].

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