Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Well, we're talking about health care and Delta's claim that Obamacare will cost another $100 million alone. Military retires who chose other options like TRICARE (which is now also UHC) cost Delta nothing. If you believe Delta's assertion, military guys are saving Delta big bucks.
True. In the way that I, as a non-accountant type of guy, would understand it, military guys who go elsewhere for their health insurance plans "cost" Delta nothing.
But, military guys are probably one of the more healthy groups on the property, and it's possible that Delta would prefer otherwise.
Because, the health insurance game is all about assumptions, predictions, and actuarial tables, and getting the healthy plan participants to pay for the less healthy, I would think that Delta would be more likely to want military guys in their insurance pools because they would be the one group that would be most likely to put in more than they took out.
Just another way to look at it.
