Quote of the Day

UnitedHealth Group’s second-quarter financial report, which beat Wall Street expectations, “just shows that in the health care sector, because there are so many challenges, the larger, more well-diversified companies are just in better shape to handle these challenges.... [UnitedHealth] lost some individual membership overall in the first half of the year [from members moving to public exchanges], but they made up for it with strong Medicaid membership. And Optum is very, very strong. It fills in the gaps when they have a hiccup in one of the other health care operations.”



— Steve Zaharuk, senior vice president at Moody’s Investors Service, told AIS’s Health Plan Week.