title: Improving tomorrow's health care with today's tools: a conversation with Larry C. Glasscock. Interview by John K. Iglehart.
abstract: The chairman and CEO of WellPoint Inc. provides some factual background on one of the nation's largest health insurers, which covers 34.2 million lives. Its own employees are offered the opportunity to join a consumer-directed health plan, which gives the company some real-life data on which to base its strategies in the marketplace. Glasscock believes that future reform efforts in his company and at the national level must focus on improving quality and affordability, reducing the number of uninsured Americans, and improving the health of those insured by WellPoint and everyone else.
authors.affiliation: WellPoint Inc. , USA.
authors.forename: Larry C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Glasscock
mesh_terms: D054598:Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans / Q000458:organization & administration; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000191:economics*; D007449:Investments; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D014481:United States