What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States?
- 6 June 2002
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 346 (23), 1822-1824
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200206063462314
Abstract
The announcement that most of the nation's biggest insurers — Aetna, CIGNA, Humana, the United Health Group, and Wellpoint Health Network — will be introducing a new kind of health plan during the next year or two signals the beginning of a new era in health insurance in the United States.1 These plans feature a complicated menu of premiums, copayments, and deductibles that will add impetus to the trend of employers' offering a defined contribution for health benefits. Each employee will get a fixed amount of money to spend as he or she sees fit and will use the Internet . . .This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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