title: Controlling America's health care costs via health care futures.
abstract: This article examines the new health care futures contract to be released by the Chicago Board of Trade sometime during calendar year 1995. Health care futures--futures contracts on health care insurance--represent a new class of financial products never before available to financial practitioners. The innovation allows health care underwriters to effectively freeze their health care costs. Besides helping to control a cost that currently consumes one seventh of our national income, health care futures also allow underwriters to plan far more effectively.
authors.affiliation: University of Louisville, KY, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ray
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis / Q000191:economics; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000639:trends*; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics*; D018803:Models, Economic; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States