Aetna quotes their mission as

"We help people achieve health and financial security by providing easy access to cost-effective, high-quality health care. And we continue to be a leader in building a stronger, more effective health care system by working with doctors, hospitals, employers, patients, public officials and others"

 

On the individual level, Aetna offer dental insurance, health expense funds, pharmacy plans, medicare insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, mental insurance, vision insurance, student health insurance and other policies. Aetna categorises the sizes of business it insures into having the following number of employees; 2-50, 51-3,000, 3,000+ and other categories

 

Aetna pride themselves on innovation in their healthcare products. As quotes from Aetna.

"Aetna continually develops new products and services that will have a positive impact. We:

Offer a broad range of insurance and employee benefits products

Were the first national, full-service health insurer to offer a consumer-directed health plan

We continue to lead the way with our full line of consumer-directed health care products

Offer a wide array of programs and services that help control rising employee benefits costs while striving to improve the quality of health care

Provide members with access to convenient tools and easy-to-understand information"

 

Fitch Rating (Long-Term, Issuer Default Rating) Aetna Inc; A (24/08/2010)

 

Moodys Rating (Long-Term) Aetna Inc, Baa1 (10/05/2010)