KHN Column: How Blue Cross Became Part Of A Dysfunctional Health Care System

In his latest Kaiser Health News column, done in collaboration with The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn writes that if the Democrats get their way, Blue Cross companies will have to change their business model, so that they act a bit more like the Blue Cross plans of old–the ones that helped schoolteachers, not stockholders (3/8). Read entire column.  
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