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Medicaid In The Health Insurance Market

PROLOGUE: And the beat goes on. With the failure of a new cost containment model to emerge to offset commercial health insurance markets’ retreat from applying managed care’s utilization control mechanisms, few are surprised that U.S. health care spending is continuing its steady and relatively unchecked upward gallop (see Katharine Levit and colleagues, Health Affairs, Jan/Feb 04). Health care spending, in fact, advanced 9.3 percent in 2002, compared with 8.5 percent in 2001—greatly outstripping growth in gross domestic product (GDP) and vaulting health spending’s share of the domestic economic pie to 14.9 percent in 2002. The usual suspects drove . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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