Study finds wide support for health care system reforms. (Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. survey) (Risk Management/Employee Benefits)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, March, 1991 by Brostoff, Steven

Study Finds Wide Support For Health Care System Reforms WASHINGTON - Every major stakeholder group in the nation's health care system agrees that the system is ailing and that compromise is necessary to improve it, according to a major survey commissioned by Metropolitan Life. The survey focused on nine major groups involved in the health care system - including corporate risk management executives and major insurers - seeking to find possible areas of consensus that could lead to a broad reform of health care.

Majorities in each of the groups agreed that the health t b: care system should continue to involve both the public and private sector and that universal health care is appropriate even if it means higher taxes. In addition, a majority of every...

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