For the most part, the insurance industry does not appear to have given a lot of political cover to the Obama administration’s signature health initiative, the Affordable Care Act.
Although most private insurers opted to participate in the private insurance exchange created by the ACA, they have complained loudly about the higher costs of providing coverage to millions of previously uninsured Americans and in recent months a number of the nation’s top insurers, including UnitedHealth, Aetna and Anthem, have indicated that they will either stop offering ACA plans in most states or will seriously consider doing so in the future.
But there is a big pot of Obamacare money that insurers want to get their hands on. That desire makes them allies of Democrats and ACA advocates, in some sense.
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