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Article: We need order, not chaos, in health care financing. (To the Point).(recommendations for health insurance, health care delivery, and changes in malpractice litigation)
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
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- January 27, 2003
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As I write this column, two unions representing workers at General Electric have called for a two-day strike to protest increased co-payments in their health insurance plan. GE, like many other companies, is struggling to cope with increases in health care costs, which over the past three years have exceeded 45%. Another rise of 15% is expected this year, and no relief is in sight.
Given the fact that GE is usually regarded as a progressive corporate employer, I can readily surmise that conditions are even worse in other business settings.
At the same time, it is being reported in the media that increasing numbers of doctors are "firing their patients," ...