Next Obamacare Worry Is Getting Enrollees to Pay Premium

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Aetna Inc., the third-biggest U.S. health insurer, has seen Obamacare enrollments increase since the federal government declared its troubled website fixed last week. Now, the concern is getting people to pay their premiums.

“We have a bigger number of applicants than people who have paid,” Aetna Chief Financial Officer Shawn Guertin said in an interview today in New York. “That’s a situation that I am a little bit worried about, that people will think they have completed the process but haven’t paid the premium yet.”