Abstract
RECENTLY, the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), which is the trade association for commercial health insurers, has mounted a campaign to Call attention to what it perceives as "cost shifting" in payment for hospital care.1 Specifically, HIAA claims that insurers that pay hospitals through methods other than the payment of charges — such as Medicare, Medicaid, and some Blue Cross plans — pay less than the cost of treating their beneficiaries and that, as a result, charge-paying patients (or their insurers) must pay more. It estimates the cost shift for 1981 to have been about S4.8 billion.HIAA fears . . .
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