MAKING SOMEONE (ELSE) PAY

If only. “You, however, may have an ATM-like role.”

To me, the key graf, mentioned almost in passing, is this:

Assurant, one of the nation's bigger writers of individual policies, ... leads in high-deductible plans of the kind Obamacare would ban (emphasis added).

My suspicion is that it is exactly these high-deductible plans that are keeping the cost of health care from rising even faster than they are. Ban them and watch annual cost increases accelerate.