Health insurers: Payment rates above 80 percent [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health insurance companies are telling Cong
ress that more than 80 percent of people who've signed up under the new health care law have gone on to pay their premiums.
That's in line with what individual insurers have said on earnings calls with analysts and elsewhere in recent weeks.

Company representatives were testifying at a House hearing run by Republicans who are skeptical of the Obama administration's claims of higher-than-expected sign-ups.

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