Originally Posted by
David.Lewis
If working-aged folks are dying at an unusually high rate, and primarily not from COVID, then this may be the beginning of the downstream effects of the government's command-and-control tactics. A 40% increase is a huge spike in death claims, and if this is being accurately reported then this is very serious.
We know that most of the death claims are not from COVID, so that leaves non-COVID mortality which, at this point, can be a wide range of causes. One America has already said they’re passing the expenses on to the group, which is what keeps the plan from blowing up in the insurer’s face (mostly). I would be surprised if other companies didn’t follow suit. Still, with such dramatic rise in deaths, it's hard to imagine this won't affect insurer profits. Maybe this is when premiums start to rise again.