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Were ready to reconvene. Senator klobuchar is next. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I talked a little bit about the Health Insurance consolidation and i know we had some quick answers there from both of you. We have a little more luxury of time now, so if you could, finish up, mr. Swedish. I was asking you, remember, about why you needed the merger to achieve some of these cost goals that you have. Thank you for the followup question. What id like to do is maybe describe to you the various products and services that we do offer in terms of how we segment our business. This is a highly segme...

Industry that then serves a very focused effort in and around the local markets. For instance, we are very active, as is cigna, in the National Marketplace serving Large National accounts. These are very sophisticated highly educated buyers of Health Care Services typically using consultants who they rely upon to make the selections for the health plan that will serve them in the National Marketplace they reside in. So specific to your question about why come together, well both be better able to serve that Customer Base of National Accounts that highly desires our support as an Administrative...

Within our own 14 states, the cigna brand, the cigna products, may come into our blue cross portfolio within those 14 states. However, in the National Account space it will still continue to compete as cigna, so its a combination of kind of placements in the country that are based on our blue states and our nonblue states where cigna will, in fact, compete. With respect to the best efforts rule that you brought up, we do need to comply with that rule, and we do not need to respond to the rule in terms of how we will comply until after the transaction closes. And then well have two years therea...

I should know that we an Important Role on the floor this morning, so i, and other members, will likely need to step out briefly to participate. We may briefly paused a hearing proceedings, although sometimes necessary,ot become dependent on the order in which people ask questions. We are here, to discuss the proposed mergers between four of the nations five Largest Health Insurance Companies. In early july of this year, aetna announced it had reached a deal to purchase rival humana. If you years later, a few months later, at them i now sit sigma. L to purchase the Department Justice is curren...

Some say thats unfair. Some say that might be an invull voluntary commitment and impair their rights. A person with serious Mental Illness, 40 of the time arent aware they have a problem. Many times they refuse treatment or the paths run into the police. They dont want to get treatment. If we provide quality, compassionate, accessible care, they may get it. We want to make sure they have that care. And number 10, advance Early Intervention programs. Things we do for everybody. I dont smoke. Wear a seat belt. But what happens is in the area of Mental Illness, the Wellness Programs that are out ...