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September 1986

Health insurance trends in cost control and coverage

Robert Frumkin

An analysis of changes in company health plans between 1979 and 1984 shows that employers often sought to contain rising expenditures, in some cases, increasing the cost to workers; improvements in benefits, however, continued.

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