Cracks in the Obamacare crystal ball
by Haley Sweetland Edwards
Aug 20, 2016
2 minutes
HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES make money by predicting the future. To set rates, quants with complex computer algorithms try to estimate not just the health of the people who will sign up for their plans but also the chances that those people will later get sick or injured or otherwise run up big medical bills. If they do their math right, the insurers make money. If
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