A new study shows that anticompetitive market power is widespread for each of the three most popular managed health care plans in the United States, and its hurting both patients and physicians while contributing to higher health costs.
Large private-sector employers are increasingly turning to self-insured health plans, according to a new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Though other reports have suggested that employers and consumers, for the most part, arent prepared or well informed about health care reform, research from Eastbridge Consulting Group is telling a different story.