Posted on Thu, Jun. 25, 2009
NYSE: CI
Employees: 30,300
Market cap: $6.05 billion
1-year change: down 46.9 percent
As one of the nation's biggest health insurers, Cigna is more than an interested observer in whatever changes the Obama administration and Congress make to the nation's health-care system. Some experts speculate that the big health plans will have to get bigger in order to invest in the technology and talent needed to cope with the new realities. Cigna covers about 12 million people.
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