(Bloomberg) UnitedHealth Group Inc., once leery of Obamacares new health insurance exchanges, is starting new plans in at least two states as competition grows stiffer in the government-run marketplaces.
In Washington state, four insurers plan to sell for the first time on the exchange next year, including UnitedHealth. In Virginia, a local health plan owned by a hospital and physicians in Lynchburg has proposed to join Aetna Inc., Kaiser Permanente and WellPoint Inc. in 2015. And in Indiana, the health exchanges offerings may double to eight companies.
