"UnitedHealth Group left California's individual market in 2013, but kept its 3 million-plus member employer-sponsored plans in the state, and largely sat out the first year of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, selling in only five states. Now, after expanding to 23 states for 2015, United wants to sell individual plans once again in California and its public exchange, Covered California. Except that Covered California officials don't seem to want UHG there -- or any new entrant that sat out these past two years and wasn't willing to take a bet on the new subsidized market."