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Article: How to launch a managed-care effort. (Allied-Signal Inc.'s managed care plan called Health Care Connection) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
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- Directors & Boards
- Article date:
- January 1, 1992
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The story of Allied-Signal's Health Care Connection, a nationwide managed-care plan that was the first of its kind in the U.S.
One of the most challenging problems facing our country is the need to control the cost of health care. Health care costs are rising at more than twice the rate of inflation and are expected to exceed $650 billion in 1991. By 1995, the tab is expected to soar to $1 trillion. Health care spending currently accounts for about 12% of the gross national product, yet an estimated 34 million Americans have no health insurance and lack access to routine health care.
Against this background of skyrocketing costs and uncertain solutions, ...