UnitedHealth Sees a Healthier Future

Healthcare is front and center in Washington once more, and lawmakers have made little progress toward making anticipated changes on the insurance front. In the absence of more reform efforts, health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) continues to walk its own path, making key strategic decisions intended to support the insurer's profitability while still retaining its customer base.

Coming into Tuesday's second-quarter financial report, UnitedHealth investors were optimistic that the insurance company's efforts would pay off with broad growth in sales and earnings. The company's results largely bore those expectations out, and UnitedHealth again boosted its 2017 profit guidance to reflect the success it has had. Let's look more closely at UnitedHealth and what its results mean for investors going forward.

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