And they want 20% more . . .

. . . in premiums next year, or thereabouts, according to their latest filings.

Item:

UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest commercial health insurers, reported robust profits on Thursday. The company, which is the first of the major insurers to make public its quarterly earnings, is viewed as something of a bellwether for the rest of the industry.

In addition to besting Wall Street estimates, UnitedHealth’s results would seem to suggest that life under the new federal health care law may not be so bad for insurers after all.

Story, what little there is of it, here.

And note that it's not all that much different than this story, published about the previous quarter.