Government to raise Medicare Advantage rates, not cut them

• The government surprisingly intends to increase Medicare Advantage payments by about 1.25% in 2016, reversing a proposal to make a cut of 0.9%.
• The move should benefit insurers such as UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) and Humana (NYSE:HUM).
• The change is mainly connected to tweaks in estimates of how fast Medicare spending has been rising rather than to changes in policy.
• Other health insurers include: AET, HNT, MO
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