Group health insurance is quite profitable. The insurance risk pools are balanced for that market. Originally Posted by flghtr65"Group health" is "profitable," because employers provided at least part of the premiums, which were drawn from a fixed source (pay checks), and there is not cancellation risks of individual coverage, and the premium based is relatively fixed with the "accounting" work done for the carrier ... and the low risks are lumped in with the high risks .... which ALL HAD pre-existing condition coverage...and the young insureds were offsetting the older higher risk patients.
It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the carrier "balancing" or "manipulating" the "pool" or the coverage. They can slightly increase the premiums across the board from many sources without losing much business, if any at all. That's how ObaminableCare failed.