Aetna Inc. is turning away from the upheaval in the U.S. major medical insurance market and focusing on other product lines.

Mark Bertolini, Aetna's chairman, and other executives talked often about Medicare plans, care coordination efforts for Medicare plan members, and efforts to help small employers self-insure today during a conference call with securities analysts.

They showed little interest in trying to return to major medical under today's tumultuous conditions.

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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.