Right! Sort of the reason the MLR cap ran into this issue in the first place. The insurers are forced into the only remaining avenues to grow profits: 1. Grow

Right! Sort of the reason the MLR cap ran into this issue in the first place. The insurers are forced into the only remaining avenues to grow profits: 1. Grow the pie, by letting prices rise. 2. Acquire the entities benefitting from this price rise. Which is exactly what they did, leading to this constant upward spiral of insurance premiums.