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...companies such as Pfizer Inc <PFE.N> and Merck & Co Inc <MRK.N> and insurers such as UnitedHealth Group Inc <UNH.N> and WellPoint Inc <WLP.N>> are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying to influence lawmakers' views on...

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...Co Inc and business groups are opposing the "public option." Drugmakers, business groups and insurers such as UnitedHealth Group Inc and WellPoint Inc are on track to spend more than $500 million this year to influence lawmakers' views on...

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...health insurance program but allows states to opt-out of the program, which insurers see as a competitive threat. * Insurers such as WellPoint Inc, Humana Inc, Cigna Corp and Aetna Inc face a $6.7 billion annual industry tax, to be...

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...now. We're talking about fundamentally changing our healthcare system," said Johnson. Insurers such as UnitedHealth Group Inc and WellPoint Inc also ramped up spending to oppose Democrats' plan for a public insurance option that could...

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...fundamentally changing our healthcare system," Johnson said. Insurers such as UnitedHealth Group Inc <UNH.N> and WellPoint Inc <WLP.N> ramped up spending to oppose Democrats' plan to create a public insurance option that could rival...

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...people will buy insurance. Pending bills would require Americans to buy policies, but some insurers -- including WellPoint Inc <WLP.N> and Aetna Inc <AET.N> -- worry penalties are too weak to enforce the mandate. Insurers also dislike a...

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...Aetna trimmed 977 jobs last December and currently has about 35,500 people. Several other large insurers, including Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. and Philadelphia-based Cigna Corp., also have announced cuts. Health insurers have...

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...by 2019 if the Democrats' reforms take root. Another study examined the impact of the congressional reform package at the state level. WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer, used its membership data from 14 states to calculate how reform...

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