title: The health insurance industry: structural and strategic issues in an uncertain environment.
abstract: Pressures on the health insurance industry emanates from the federal and state governments, from policyholders, from competitors and from rising inflation. The health care cost crisis presents the industry with major public relations problems. Health insurance firms are responding to pressures and problems in different ways.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D005544:Forecasting; D006076:Government; D007341:Insurance; D007343:Insurance Carriers; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States