Employers, historically key players in the U.S. health caresystem, are as interested in debates over health care reformas they have ever been. The pressures they face — thehigh and increasing costs of health care and the balancing actbetween attracting labor and containing expenditures —have worsened as health care costs have grown faster than wages.Although the business community has been a reluctant actor inthis arena, it remains skeptical that its interests will beserved by solutions arising from the provider community or fromincreased government control. As policy analysts evaluate theeffects of employer-sponsored . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Galvin is the director of global health care at General Electric, Fairfield, CT, and professor adjunct at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
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