Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Bertolini said Wednesday the Affordable Care Act is fatally flawed and that he believes more insurers will follow Humana Inc. and quit public health exchanges entirely. It is in a death spiral, he said of Obamacare in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
syn-. 1. a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, having the same function as co- (synthesis; synoptic); used, with the meaning âwith,â âtogether,â in the formation of compound words (synsepalous) or âsyntheticâ in such compounds (syngas). Also, sy-, syl-, sym-, sys-. Origin of syn-.
The English prefixes syn-along with its variant sym-, derived from Greek, mean âtogether.â You can remember syn-easily by thinking of synonym, which is a word that goes âtogetherâ with another word because it has a similar meaning. You can remember sym-by thinking of symphony, which is a group of instruments making sound âtogether.â