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Health Care Consumerism in the News

As health care costs continue to rise sharply in traditional health insurance plans, consumers are beginning to demand better solutions. Innovative companies, such as HealthMarkets, are changing the rules of the marketplace to give consumers unprecedented power, information and control over their own health care spending.

Below please find links to relevant articles that discuss the current state of consumerism in the health care industry:

• Heatlh Care Trends Special Report: Cost Conscious
  Dallas Business Journal, 5/26/06
• Some Insurers Give Price Information
  USA Today, 5/5/06
• Health Care: Can Consumer Choice Cure the Nation's Ills?
  The Wall Street Journal, 1/9/06
• Congress Got Something Right
  The Wall Street Journal, 12/7/05
• Building a Consumer-Directed Service Culture
  Hospitals & Health Networks, 12/1/05
• Patient-Driven Health Care Gains Attention
  The Blade, 11/5/05
• New Push for Health Savings Accounts
  National Journal, 11/5/05
• Small Businesses Grapple with Health Insurance Costs
  The Courier-Journal, 4/4/05
• Who's Really to Blame for Rising Health Care Costs?
  Investor's Business Daily, 11/22/04
• Healthy Trend - New Way to Curb Medical Costs
  The Wall Street Journal, 6/23/04
• More Market, Less Straightjacket
  The Wall Street Journal, 1/22/04
• Critic: Unknown Prices Hamper Health Care
  Associated Press Newswires. 12/16/03