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"The overarching takeaway of the individual market today is how adaptive payors have become since Obamacare, learning to spin a profit after an initial loss."

Ain't that the truth?
https://www.uncovered.health/features/the-individual-marketplace-what-we-know-now/

UnitedHealth Group and other big health insurers are now trying to buy good will by announcing “partnerships” to “address health equity challenges.”

What insurers fail to mention is that THEY are the reason Americans face "challenges" in the first place.

https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/insurers-are-trying-to-buy-good-will

NEW: Anthem made $34 billion in revenues during the Q2 of this year, up 16% from the $29.3B it reported for the same period last year.

Most of their gains came from American taxpayers.

https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/anthem-10-year

#ICYMI: Peace-Washing: Is a network of major donors neutralizing activism in the peace movement? https://tarbell.org/2021/06/peace-washing-is-a-network-of-major-donors-neutralizing-activism-in-the-peace-movement/

Before I left Cigna, I was in a leadership meeting that was typically uneventful until someone asked Ed Hanway, the CEO at the time, what kept him up at night.

Find out his answer below.

https://www.uncovered.health/features/how-insurers-obscure-healthcare-costs/

For more on the huge amount of medical debt that Americans owe, read my latest on @SubstackInc!

https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/nyt-medical-debt