NTY EDITORIAL BOARD CALLS FOR REARRANGEMENT OF TITANIC DECK CHAIRS

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Patterico :

NTY Editorial Board Calls for Rearrangement of Titanic Deck Chairs

Filed under: General — JVW @ 10:59 pm

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As a follow-up to Patterico’s post earlier today regarding Aetna’s decision to drastically cut back on their participation in ObamaCare state exchanges, the hopelessly dumb New York Times editorial board types out a typically mindless editorial assuring the Obama Administration’s fan club that this is but a “hiccup” in the irreversible and ongoing establishment of a permanent role for the federal government in administering health care:

 

ome big national insurers like UnitedHealth, Humana and now Aetna say they are losing too much money on marketplace policies. The reason is that the customers they signed up used more medical services than the insurers had anticipated. On Monday, Aetna said it would reduce the number of counties where it sells such policies to 242, from 778, citing a $200 million pretax loss on those policies in the second quarter. The company had sold marketplace policies to about 911,000 customers as of April.

 

Losing money will focus your mind in that way, won’t it? The editorial goes on: