More Bang for the Health Care Buck: How an Efficiency Standard for Health Insurers Can Reduce Overhead and Deliver More Patient Care
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Publication date
5 May 2009
Publisher
U. S. PIRG Education Fund
Abstract
Argues for requiring health insurance plans to improve efficiency and spend 85 percent of revenues on health care as a way to lower costs. Lists states with spending floors, examines the feasibility of such a requirement, and makes policy recommendations