Subject: Follow-up to Question re UnitedHealthcare and Implications
From: Chris Jennings <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:13:04 +0000

John:  Following up on your call last night, I tried to quickly pull together the attached semi-comprehensive, but hopefully easy to read backgrounder on the UnitedHealthcare situation and the broader dynamics/implications/questions that are raised around it.  I present the conflicting issues around plan positioning, enrollment and risk selection.  I think you will find it to be consistent with our conversation.  You will note that besides raising the issues, I make a recommendation about HRC being a bit more aggressive about the need to strengthen the ACA over time.  I also raise a few very preliminary new policy outlines that may spur further conversations with Ann, Jake and the rest of the team. Hope helpful for you all.

Chris

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