Friday, November 20, 2015

Biggest U.S. Health Insurer Says It May Abandon Public Exchanges


UnitedHealth, the nation's largest health insurer, chopped its 2015 earnings forecast and indicated it is questioning its future in public insurance exchanges, a key component in the nation's health care overhaul popularly known as Obamacare.

The company said Thursday that it would pull back on the marketing of its exchange business a few weeks after open enrollment for that coverage began nationwide. It also said that it will decide in the first half of next year "to what extent it can continue to serve the public exchange markets in 2017." 

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Source: NBC News

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