Comment: We here at the OCTS are beyond amused to see CoverCA’s top health-slavery official moaning, wailing, and lashing out at UnitedHealth Group. UHC’s offense? Balking at throwing $500 million a year into his parasitic organization. Delightfully, UHC’s self-survival savvy has California’s Gruber-in-Chief holding his breath and stomping his feet. For a delicious dose of pajama-freude, read on…
“”Instead of saying, ‘We screwed up,’ they said, ‘Obamacare is the problem and we may not play anymore,’” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state’s health benefit exchange. “It was giving an excuse to Wall Street and throwing the Affordable Care Act under the bus.”"
“ACA exchange problems are nothing new for UnitedHealth. In November, the insurer threatened to leave the exchanges due to financial losses. Mr. Lee, a former official in the Obama administration, said UnitedHealth only has itself to blame for its $475 million loss on individual policies in 2015, according to the report. For 2016, the insurer estimated a loss of $500 million on individual policies.”
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“However, now UnitedHealth is “driving me bonkers,” Mr. Lee said, according to the report. It has “fed this political frenzy that Obamacare doesn’t work. It’s total spin and unanchored in reality.”"
Covered California director: UnitedHealth is ‘driving me bonkers’
by Erin Marshall | February 03, 2016