Executives at insurance giant Anthem say 2017 competition in their parts of the individual commercial health market looks fierce.

Some other big insurers, including Hartford, Connecticut-based Aetna and Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group, began the open enrollment period for 2017 with products available through only a handful of state Affordable Care Act public exchange programs. Those insurers now have a much smaller presence in the public exchange system, and in the individual major medical market as a whole, than they had a year ago.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.