Insurers are facing "unprecedented uncertainty from the ACA implementation and the 2014 Medicare Advantage rate cuts," said Brian Wright, a New York-based analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co., in an e-mail.
UnitedHealth fell 2.8 percent to $72.76 at the close in New York, its biggest one-day decline since October. WellPoint Inc., the second-largest U.S. insurer, dropped 2.9 percent, Aetna Inc. decreased 1.6 percent and Humana Inc. fell 1 percent.
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