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Article: More clues to ins. role under reform. (health insurance, health care reform)
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
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- May 17, 1993
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WASHINGTON--Health insurance companies will have a changed role in the future under the Clinton administration's health care reform plan, according to a high ranking presidential adviser.
Managed care will be an increasing part of the health care system, and "medical underwriting will disappear," Ira Magaziner, the President's senior policy development adviser, told some 300 business people last week at a National Association of Manufacturers' briefing.
Supplemental health insurance will be sold by health insurers, according to Mr. Magaziner. And in an apparent reference to the role of agents under the proposal, he said there will be opportunity to ...