Government-Sponsored Health Plan Enrollment Picks Up Steam

For every commercial member gained by the top seven health insurers since December 2011, five government-sponsored members were added, according to a report by Mark Farrah Associates, a healthcare market research firm based in Kennebunk, Maine.

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The report analyzes financial and membership data during third quarter 2011 through third quarter 2012 from Aetna, Cigna, Health Care Service Corporation, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint, who insure about 51 percent of the U.S. population.

Aggregated membership from all seven companies grew 2.6 percent year-over-year, but Medicare and Medicaid enrollment grew much more quickly, jumping 17.2 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, between September 2011 and September 2012.

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