Article: Blue Cross keeps its appeal despite exec suite chaos. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio)

Top management at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ohio may be a Machiavellian cast of characters slugging it out for power, but Ohio's oldest insurer remains an attractive acquisition prospect for Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. or anyone else.

"Blue Cross still makes a whale of a transaction. With a strong hand and its ship corrected, it could be of tremendous value going forward raider the right leadership, said Steve Volla, chairman of Primary Health System of Wayne, Pa.

"There's a lot of opportunity to bring in a leadership and vision to recapture the momentum and run the legs off the company," said Mr. Volla, whose for-profit hospital company owns the ...

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