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Health-care revolution. (Florida health care industry forecasts for 1996)(Special Issue:...

By Borfitz, Deborah
Publication: Florida Trend
Date: Monday, January 1 1996

Employers' quest for lower premiums, and growing acceptance of managed care as the vehicle for achieving it, will be the major shaper of business conditions for Florida's health-services industry in 1996 and beyond.

"The health-care delivery system, which has been exempt from the natural forces of economic competition, will now be brought into the fold," says Donald White, spokesman for the Group Health Association of America, a Washington trade group.

In 1994, the Florida Hospital Association says the state trailed only New York and California in enrollment in he

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