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Health Plans & The Market

PROLOGUE

Health Plans And The Market

PROLOGUE: The environment for health plans in the United States is nothing if not volatile. A decade of survey data point to ongoing changes in how the nation’s employers handle their health benefits. Medicare has attempted a market-based solution, Medicare+Choice, whose fate is still uncertain because so many plans have opted out. Now, a shaky economy and a pervasive sense of uncertainty threaten to bring still more changes for health plans. This section of papers examines three specific types of health plans in greater depth.

In the section’s lead paper Debra Draper and colleagues of the Washington, D.C.–based Center for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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