|Articles|January 1, 2008

MCOs Under Pressure to Do More with Less

Insurers and health plans have seen business grow in recent years, benefiting from changes in Medicare and efforts to expand health coverage. With health policy in the center of the 2008 U.S. political debate, healthcare costs, benefits and access will be in the spotlight, along with a host of issues for managed care executives to deal with.

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