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President Barack Obama is enlisting private companies into his drive to change the way the country pays its medical bills.

As more former hippies need hip replacements, health insurers from Humana Inc. to WellCare Health Plans Inc. are turning into hot targets.

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Insurance industry groups and insiders are responding to the Premera Blue Cross attack by communicating with clients, offering additional services and stressing the need for immediate action.

Hackers may have accessed information including names, Social Security numbers, bank accounts and medical information, Mountlake Terrace, Washington-based Premera said today in a statement.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has adopted Towers Watsons private exchange, OneExchange, to deliver health care benefits to 26,500 full-time active employees and their families beginning April 1, 2015, Towers Watson said Monday.