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Article: Health coverage should mimic car industry.(Focus: HEALTH CARE)(health care costs)
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- Westchester County Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 13, 2005
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Rising health-care costs will only be reined in when innovation and market choice are unleashed in the health-care system, agreed two industry exports at a recent forum on consumer-driven health plans in Albany.
The forum, sponsored by the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center, featured speakers Regina Herzlinger, professor at the Harvard School of Business, and Scott Gottlieb, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank.
The fastest-growing number of uninsured makes more than $75,000 per year, Herzlinger said. "We've now gotten to a point where the poor and the middle class can own cars and houses but not health insurance," she ...