No doubt these insurers made apple pie and sunny day predictions of lots of young healthy new customers that paid their premiums and never got sick. (Pressured to do so by the Obama administration)
But any reasonable semi-intelligent young person would rather pay the tax (penalty) than buy an expensive policy that they dont need.
So naturally these insurance companies have been bitten in the buttocks by reality and now must adjust their policy premiums upward to compensate for the realities of the market as it exist rather than the artificial reality that the Democrats dream of in their socialist philosophy.
But any reasonable semi-intelligent young person would rather pay the tax (penalty) than buy an expensive policy that they dont need.