{"id":7783,"date":"2017-01-25T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2017-01-25T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:48:25","slug":"rising-aca-rates-ctd-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/25\/rising-aca-rates-ctd-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising ACA Rates, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers find the Aetna<\/strong> <\/em>report<\/a> nauseating. One replies to my question about perjury:<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that perjury charges would be effective. For better effect, I’d try for an anti-trust suit.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps a class action suit would make more sense. The rejection of their attempted merger with Humana<\/strong><\/em> might put a damper on an anti-trust suit. Another:<\/p>\n

“The company [Aetna] said its overall profit leapt 38% in the final quarter of the year, as a key measure of spending on medical costs fell. The strong quarterly results were fueled largely by its government business, which includes Medicare and Medicaid.” http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/aetna-profit-rises-38-1454326988<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, they’re a bunch of greedy, whining bastards.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But from their viewpoint they’re just trying to maximize profit. That’s what they’re taught to do.<\/p>\n

I wonder if this is what happens when the idol of free enterprise<\/em> seeps out of the private sector into everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers find the Aetna report nauseating. One replies to my question about perjury: I’m not sure that perjury charges would be effective. For better effect, I’d try for an anti-trust suit. Perhaps a class action suit would make more sense. The rejection of their attempted merger with Humana might put \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7784,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}