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Business Opportunities In Transforming Health Care: A Conversation With William W. McGuire

After a spate of high-profile acquisitions including Oxford Health Plans, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) covers twenty-two million Americans in insured and self-insured health plans and tens of millions more through specialty products. Bill McGuire describes his strategy of growth through acquisition and through diversification into Medicaid managed care, the individual insurance market, and services for the elderly under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. He sees business and public policy opportunities in the unjustifiable variation in cost and quality across the health care system and proposes a framework of basic insurance benefits for all Americans, with options for people to purchase additional benefits with their own money.

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