Health insurers walk delicate line against Democrats’ health proposals

Wall Street Journal

31 July 2019 - As Democratic presidential candidates take aim at the health-insurance industry, companies are striking a delicate balance, trying to fight the plans without attracting the political spotlight or sparking investor alarm.

The health insurers are deploying a two-pronged approach. Collectively, a number of insurers are putting their might into a coalition mounting an aggressive campaign against Democratic health-care proposals billed as “Medicare for All.” Television ads began running during Tuesday night’s presidential debate. But individual companies are mostly staying out of the public fray.

“This is tricky for the plans,” said Dan Mendelson, an operating partner at private-equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. “They don’t want to, nor can they, go out hard as individual companies against those concepts.”

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