Will our government bail out United Healthcare?

[modem77]

I sure hope not. I would rather see taxpayer money put into expansion of medicare and medicaid.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. United Healthcare isn't going broke

No need to bail them out.

[Autumn]

2. What kind of money do they put out there in purchasing support

from politicians? That will tell you all you need to know.

[doc03]

3. United Healthcare is broke? Isn't that

the AARP insurer?

[CTyankee]

6. I think so but I am on Medicare, not Obamacare...

so it shouldn't affect me.

[Waldorf]

4. They aren't broke but have announced that they might be leaving the Affordable Care Act in a couple

years.

"One of the country’s largest health insurers warned Thursday that it may leave the ObamaCare exchanges within two years, delivering a shock announcement that could ripple through the marketplace.

At a shareholder meeting Thursday, UnitedHealthcare cast doubt on its ability to carry plans on the healthcare law’s exchanges beyond 2016, offering a more grim financial outlook than it had previously expected."

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/260758-unitedhealthcare-may-exit-obamacare-exchanges

[louis-t]

5. UHC has been ripping people off for decades.

My heart bleeds for them. This is the latest extortion attempt from a huge corporation. How are they losing money? Policies are not cheap. They have more customers, the government is paying part of the cost most of the time. This is a head scratcher. Like Trump owning a casino that went bankrupt. How is that possible?

[egduj]

7. No, because they are not in trouble.

They are just unwilling to absorb the financial loss from participating in the ACA.