New Aetna plans will force thousands in N.J. to switch
Thursday December 12, 2013, 11:01 PM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Small businesses and individuals with Aetna health insurance will need to choose new plans next year, as the insurer announced it would not renew this year’s policies after Jan. 1.
About 90,000 small-group customers and 2,600 people who buy their own policies from the Connecticut-based Aetna are affected.
The insurer is the second in New Jersey to decide against renewing the old policies next year, despite President Obama’s encouragement to do so. The president, under fire after insurers issued cancellation notices to millions of consumers nationwide with individual and small-group plans in order to comply with his signature law, said last month that he would not enforce certain requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
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