By Jared A. Favole
WASHINGTON--Chief executives from more than a dozen
health-insurance companies are meeting with some of President
Barack Obama's top advisers to talk about problems dogging the
administration's online health-insurance marketplace, the White
House said Wednesday.
The meeting, which was scheduled to begin 2 p.m., comes as the
administration continues to face criticism about the widespread
difficulty with the website and tries to bring in outside expertise
to solve the problems.
"The purpose of the meeting is to continue to discuss open
enrollment and ongoing implementation of the Affordable Care Act,"
said Mr. Obama's chief spokesman, Jay Carney. "The CEOs bring an
important on-the-ground perspective."
The meeting includes the chief executives of WellPoint Inc.,
Kaiser Permanente, Aetna Inc., CareFirst Inc. and others.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other administration
officials are supposed to attend the meeting, Mr. Carney said.
Here's the list of attendees released by the White House:
Mark Bertolini, CEO, Aetna
Bruce Broussard, CEO, Humana
Chet Burrell, CEO, CareFirst
Patrick Geraghty, CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Jay Gellert, President & CEO, Health Net, Inc.
Patricia Hemingway Hall, President & CEO, Health Care
Services Corporation
Daniel J. Hilferty, President & CEO, Independence Blue
Cross
Karen Ignagni, President & CEO, America's Health Insurance
Plans
John Molina, Chief Financial Officer, Molina Healthcare
Michael Neidorff, Chairman & CEO, Centene Corp.
James Roosevelt, President & CEO, Tufts Health Plan
Scott Serota, President & CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Association
Joseph Swedish, CEO, Wellpoint
Bernard Tyson, CEO, Kaiser Permanente
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