Mr. Bertolini, who oversees the third-largest investor-owned health insurer in the United States, spoke at a conference in New York earlier this week. He said the government was overestimating savings from the healthcare law, particularly within the small- and large-employer plans, according to the report.
However, Gary Claxton, a vice president with nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, told Bloomberg any massive jumps in health premium rates and costs “just seems silly.” “On the individual market, there’s arguments for things changing,” he said in the report, “but those magnitudes seem high.”
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