Showing posts with label medical loss ratio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical loss ratio. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

Why Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealth are so nervous

There were plenty of headlines this week about new insurance protections in the federal health law, and a decision by most big insurers to stop issuing new policies that cover only children, not adults, and aren't provided to youngsters through their parents' employers. Pick your MSM -- LA Times, Wash Post, NYT. Some 225 health policy wonks at an Austin conflab heard a former health insurance executive explain, from the inside, just why the for-profit insurance companies have the jitters.

Garrett explains: http://dallasne.ws/cCtFFw