Five of the nation’s largest health insurance companies are looking to build their own inside-the-Beltway coalition to influence implementation of the new health law and congressional efforts to change it, I write for NPR and Kaiser Health News.
The companies – Aetna, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and WellPoint — are shopping around Washington for a public relations firm to represent them, according to a source familiar with their work. Public Strategies and APCO Worldwideare among PR firms that have spoken with the insurers, the source said.