{"id":20068,"date":"2013-08-08T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20068"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:26:44","slug":"insurance-companies-are-businesses-they-have-the-right-to-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20068","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Companies Are Businesses&#8211;They Have The Right To Make Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that seems to be missing in the comments by the few politicians who actually support <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a> is the understanding that insurance companies are businesses&#8211;their goal is to make a profit. If the rules of the game are such that the insurance companies cannot make a profit, they can easily choose not to participate in the marketplace involved. We are now seeing that dynamic in ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cybercast News Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">CNS News<\/a> reported yesterday that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Blue Cross Blue Shield Association\" href=\"http:\/\/bcbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Blue Cross<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Aetna\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aetna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Aetna<\/a>, United, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Humana\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humana.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Humana<\/a>, the major health insurance companies, will not be participating in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health insurance exchange\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_insurance_exchange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">health-insurance exchanges<\/a> in various states.<\/p>\n<p>Aetna, an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/industry\/Insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">insurance company<\/a> founded in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Connecticut\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.6,-72.7&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=41.6,-72.7 (Connecticut)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Connecticut<\/a>, has pulled out of the exchanges in Connecticut, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Georgia (U.S. state)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.0,-83.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=33.0,-83.5 (Georgia%20%28U.S.%20state%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Georgia<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Maryland\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.0,-76.7&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=39.0,-76.7 (Maryland)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Maryland<\/a>, saying that the limitations that would be imposed on them by those states would not allow them to make a profit. The company never planned to participate in the California exchanges, and will not be doing so. They are, after all, a private company in business to make a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Max Baucus recently stated about ObamaCare, &#8220;I just tell ya, I just see a huge train wreck coming down.&#8221; He is one of the Senators who supported ObamaCare when it was passed. I think he is right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=8071eb1b-0cc9-4baf-ab14-5e63b039f6dd\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that seems to be missing in the comments by the few politicians who actually support ObamaCare is the understanding that insurance companies are businesses&#8211;their goal is to make a profit. If the rules of the game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6073,6075,30,139,1972,6074,660,1637,134,6076],"class_list":["post-20068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aetna","tag-blue-cross","tag-california","tag-connecticut","tag-georgia","tag-humana","tag-insurance","tag-maryland","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-united-healthcare-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20069,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068\/revisions\/20069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}