It’s Way Past Time For Us To Stop Deluding Ourselves About Private Health Insurers

Here are a couple of important details you have to dig through Aetna’s filings to find (and which I haven’t seen reported by any other media today): The company lost 1,184,000 commercial (private paying) enrollees (members) between June 30, 2015, and June 30, 2016, but it gained 487,000 Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Medicaid enrollees during that time.