A Reminder That Nobody Should Cry For The HMOs

Tim Carney reminds us: for all the rhetoric about people vs. big insurers, the big insurers don’t seem to have come up on the short end of the stick as a result of the people’s big victory.

The connection isn’t perfect, but if you squint a bit, you can see it. Shares of Cigna, Wellpoint, and Aetna seemed to move favorably with the InTrade Obamacare contract. The last jump is particularly striking.

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