title: Employment-based health benefits and public-sector coverage: opportunity for leadership.
abstract: In this commentary, Helen Darling, speaking from the large-employer perspective, responds to James Robinson's paper on the mature health insurance industry, which faces declining opportunities with employer-based health benefits and growing but less appealing public-sector opportunities for management and other services. The similar needs of public and private employers and payers provide an opportunity for leadership, accelerating innovation and using value-added services to improve safety, quality, and efficiency of health care for all.
authors.affiliation: National Business Group on Health in Washington, DC, USA. darling@businessgrouphealth.org
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Darling
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers; D007857:Leadership; D008484:Medicaid / Q000639:trends; D006278:Medicare / Q000639:trends; D008875:Middle Aged; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States