(The following statement was released by the rating agency)

Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Health Insurer Sector Credit Factor Summaries

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=697435

Jan 31 - Fitch Ratings has published a special report illustrating how it

applies its Insurance Rating Methodology and assesses key qualitative and

quantitative factors in its ratings process for health insurance and managed

care companies.

The report includes sector credit factor diagrams for 14 health insurers. These

diagrams provide high-level summaries of key qualitative and quantitative

factors impacting the companies' ratings. The report comments on qualitative

factors from sector-wide and company specific perspectives and on quantitative

factors from a company-specific perspective.

The report also outlines the relative attributes of higher-rated and lower-rated

health insurers.

Fitch's special report, 'Health Insurers' Sector Credit Factor Summaries' is

available at www.fitchratings.com'.

Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'.

Applicable Criteria and Related Research:

--'Insurance Rating Methodology' (Jan. 11, 2013).

Applicable Criteria and Related Research:

Insurance Rating Methodology - Amended

(New York Ratings Team)

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