title: Hedging opportunities in health care.
abstract: Medical care futures contracts offer new hedging opportunities to increase protection against unexpected price changes. Commodity futures contracts can be designed explicitly to hedge volatile group health insurance premiums and capitated hospital and physician prices. This article describes one way to design and use these hedging instruments.
authors: J A
authors: JA
authors: Hayes
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