Obamacare pays for insurers who fought it as stocks rise

U.S. health insurers that waged a campaign against Obamacare hit an all-time high on the stock market Wednesday after UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it would add hundreds of thousands of new customers because of the law. The Standard & Poor's 500 Managed Health Care Index -- which includes the five biggest U.S. insurers -- closed at 1,031.18 on Wednesday in New York, the highest level since at least 1994. Health insurers have said that the Affordable Care Act has cost them billions in taxes and fees -- including $1 billion in 2014 for UnitedHealth -- and burdened them with new regulations.