"After posting hefty profits in 2012, the publicly traded health plans have released pretty darn good first-quarter earnings and most even upped their forecasts for the year.... And, by the way, their stock prices are up.... To listen to some of the health plan executives talk, though, it's as if they expect Obamacare to swallow them whole. They warn of 20 percent-plus increases in commercial premiums as if they are inevitable. State healthcare exchanges are spoken of as more risk than opportunity."

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