<story><title>U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting ACA</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GiorgioG</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before, we need a single payer system.&lt;p&gt;Insurance companies and Pharmaceutical companies can more or less dictate the prices they&amp;#x27;ll charge because if you&amp;#x27;re chronically ill, you can&amp;#x27;t just choose not to be treated (unless you&amp;#x27;re ok with dying.)&lt;p&gt;This behavior should not be surprising.  Until the American people get pissed off enough, we&amp;#x27;ll continue to have these shenanigans.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting ACA</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burkaman</author><text>Am I misreading this, or are they forgoing profit purely out of spite? Or I guess the idea is they could make more profit in the long run if they generate enough bad publicity for the ACA. These quotes almost seem too on the nose to be real:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “I just can’t make sense out of the Florida dec[ision],” the executive, Christopher Ciano, wrote to Jonathan Mayhew, the head of Aetna’s national exchange business. “Based on the latest run rate data . . . we are making money from the on-exchange business. Was Florida’s performance ever debated?” Mayhew told him to discuss the matter by phone, not email, “to avoid leaving a paper trail,” [the judge] found.</text></comment>