Health insurers fled the Affordable Care Act in the early years of the law, fearing that losses from covering too many sick people would eat away at their profits.
Now the insurers increasingly view Obamacare as a boon while job-based health coverage faces its biggest threat yet in a crashing economy.
With tens of millions of people losing their jobs — and their health benefits — along with major cuts to Medicaid, the insurers see stability and the…