{"id":37363,"date":"2009-11-06T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"a5b9f328-5c76-4723-ac4c-5c6610a726dd"},"modified":"2009-11-06T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:03:00","slug":"insurance-companies-make-the-best-of-a-very-bad-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/37363","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Companies Make The Best Of A Very Bad Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rising unemployment, swine flu and the threat of health care reform all ganged up on managed care companies in the third quarter and could hurt their performance heading into 2010,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j_6Q8RLyLapAm-wwBSGxKAAiiaXgD9BPLSB80\">Associated Press<\/a> reports. Nevertheless, companies reported better third-quarter profits than anticipated and one analyst noted that &#8220;they&#8217;re holding their own in a very, very bad situation.&#8221; Cigna &#8220;reported a third-quarter profit that soared 92 percent, as improving equity markets helped turn around the performance of a discontinued business the insurer maintains but no longer markets.&#8221; UnitedHealth\u00a0Group also reported double-digit gains compared with the same quarter in 2008. Insurers also reported losses in enrollment, as companies laid off workers (Murphy, 11\/05). <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/2bjgJKB4fVU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rising unemployment, swine flu and the threat of health care reform all ganged up on managed care companies in the third quarter and could hurt their performance heading into 2010,&#8221; the Associated Press reports. Nevertheless, companies reported better third-quarter profits than anticipated and one analyst noted that &#8220;they&#8217;re holding their own in a very, very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}