Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have been investing and building new health insurance and related companies at a torrid pace—which may seem odd, because the industry is highly regulated and has relatively low profit margins.
But widespread consumer dissatisfaction with dominant carriers and the Affordable Care Act's new marketplaces for individual plans has created an opening for innovators to come up with alternative approaches and has primed investors to take a chance on what they're pitching.
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