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Alabama

still_one

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4. Anthem is making very good money. Alabama may be a loss for them, and as you pointed out only 5%

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 10, 2016, 03:31 PM

Aug 2016

are enrolled in BCBS, and that is the problem, they don't obviously have enough healthy folks enrolled in that plan level to break even or turn a profit in Alabama.

Here is the earnings for BCBS:

http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ANTM/key-statistics?p=ANTM

The states that fared the worse were those states that campaigned against the ACA, and as a result of that it discouraged enrollments in those states.

As an aside, I also hate what Yahoo did with their finance page. They took a good website, and ruined it.

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Blue Cross proposes rate hike of nearly 40 percent on some Obamacare plans [View all] yallerdawg Aug 2016 OP

If they are going through the federal exchanges, that implies that Alabama did not implement their still_one Aug 2016 #1

They lost 250 million Travis_0004 Aug 2016 #2

Losing money? yallerdawg Aug 2016 #3

Anthem is making very good money. Alabama may be a loss for them, and as you pointed out only 5% still_one Aug 2016 #4