SIIA pres. eyes self-funding perils. (Self-Insurance Institute of America president Edward R. Ueeck)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, November, 1996 by Katz, David M.

DALLAS - Threats to the federally regulated, employer-based system of self-funding health benefits are coming at the self-insurance industry from a growing number of angles, in the view of Edward R. Ueeck, incoming president of the Self-Insurance Institute of America. The enactment of the Kassebaum Kennedy health insurance reform bill, for instance, opens up the possibility of more mandated benefits and higher costs, said Mr.

Ueeck in a wide-ranging interview at SIIA's 16th annual conference. These costs will make benefits that much more expensive to provide for the nation's millions of uninsured people, said Mr. Ueeck, managing director of Pacific Risk Management Services, PM Group Life Insurance, in Fountain Valley, Calif. "If the government continues to...

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