Robert Laszewski—a prominent consultant to health insurance companies—
recently wrote in a remarkably candid blog post that, while Obamacare is almost
certain to cause insurance costs to skyrocket even higher than it
already has, “insurers won’t be losing a lot of sleep over it.” How can
this be? Because insurance companies won’t bear the cost of their own
losses—at least not more than about a quarter of them. The other
three-quarters will be borne by American taxpayers....