Aetna or any other insurance company would be happy to have Obamacare in their portfolio if it made money. In this case, it doesn't and they are dropping it. If the expectation is that insurance companies are altruistic and will subsidize programs for the good of people then that would be a hopeful position.There are going to be more of them dropping it.

My sense is that you two are in vicious agreement. Yes, Aetna's making good on an overtly political threat with billions of dollars worth of spite behind it, and yes, with a shallow risk pool full of sick people getting ever shallower and sicker, Obamacare's in a death spiral even before the individual mandate is enforced.

There will be a day of reckoning, a totaling of sums and a sorrowful wailing from home after home. Maybe then, though, we will realize health care isn't health insurance, and that we ought not to let middlemen and insurance salesmen set national health care policy. It's like we tried to end loansharking by legally requiring every man, woman and child in the United States to take out enough of a vig that we don't lose respect for them.

Yes, we are in agreement! It was an ill conceived, if not malicious program to ultimately force this showdown. The pawns and victims in this game are of course the people. Congress and their ilk are unaffected as literally millions of people and families are thrown about like ragdolls. If there are culprits here, it's not in the business end of this equation, it is in the camp of the masterminds who orchestrated this. It is a BFD all right.