UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a diversified health and well-being company in the United States. It is a managed health care and health insurance company that provides a wide array of consumer-oriented health insurance plans and services under seven operating businesses: UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, OptumHealth, Ingenix, Uniprise, and Prescription Solutions. Through its broad network of subsidiaries and divisions, UnitedHealth Group also offers administrative and management services, non-employer based insurance products for individuals, network-based health and well-being...

Kaiser Permanente is the largest integrated managed care organization in the United States. It is a consortium of three groups of entities in the American healthcare industry: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and the Permanente Medical Groups. The Oakland-based organization was established by Henry J. Kaiser, an industrialist, and Sidney R. Garfield, a physician, in 1945. Kaiser Permanente has grown into a company operating in eight regions in the U.S. providing services to 8.6 million health plan members. Its operations are currently carried out by 167,300...

State Farm Insurance is a group of American financial services and insurance companies. It is the leader in the automobile insurance industry in the United States since 1942, providing insurance for more car, watercraft and homeowners than any other insurance provider in the United States. It is also the leader in the insurance industry in Canada. It is a Fortune 500 company and ranked 31st in that list as of 2009. State Farm is also considered as the largest property and casualty insurance firm by the Fortune Global 500. The company was established in 1922 by George J. Mecherle as a mutual...

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is an American federation of 39 separate community-based and locally operated health insurance organizations and companies. The 39 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies provide top-quality and affordable health insurance services to over a hundred million people in the United States for about 80 years now. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is one of the country’s oldest and largest organizations in the health insurance industry. It is also one of the largest employers in its industry, utilizing a workforce of 1,000 employees. The...

Aetna is one of the American leaders in the health insurance industry. The company provides a broad range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and services. Their line of commodities includes medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical management capabilities. Aetna, a Fortune 100 company, is dedicated to helping people obtain health and financial security by offering health care, pharmacy, dental, group life, long-term care insurance and employee benefits through employer-paid insurance and...

With the various treatments available, the question then becomes how to pay for them. This question has challenged national governments, public policy shapers, parents, and many others. Some nations, such as Canada, have adopted national, socialized healthcare. In the United States, healthcare provision consists of mixture of government provided social services and private payer plans. Depending on socioeconomic status and age, the US government provides either Medicare or Medicaid in an effort to provide healthcare to those who cannot afford it. Otherwise, employers generally include...