ThinkAdvisor April 16, 2019
The company’s executives say the best way to achieve universal coverage is through existing platforms.
Executives at UnitedHealth Group Inc. today kicked off the first-quarter earnings release season for life and health insurers by declaring that they’re the ones making real progress at improving the U.S. health care delivery system.
David Wichmann, UnitedHealth’s chief executive officer, told securities analysts that the Medicare for All proposals now under discussion would lead to wholesale disruption of the U.S. health care system and drive up costs, without doing much to increase access to care.
But Wichmann did say the company supports universal coverage, based on existing programs.
“The path forward is to achieve universal coverage, and it can be substantially reached through existing...
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