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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Your employer offers you insurance by pooling its employees together to get a bulk rate. Your employer then subsidizes your plan (in most cases) and pays a fixed amount for your participation.

Essentially, the government did the same thing except it pools everyone who purchases through them.

Fun fact: if everyone purchased through the exchange, it would overall be cheaper for everyone but then tHaT iS sOcIaLiSm!