Are Health Insurance Companies the Reason for Our Health System’s Ills?

This JAMA Forum explores the question of whether, and to what extent, health insurance companies are to blame for high health care costs in the US.

Corresponding Author: Larry Levitt, MPP, KFF, 185 Berry Street, Ste 2000, San Francisco, CA 94107 (larryl@kff.org).

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