Unhealthy lifestyles fuel health care cost increases

Jim Purcell

12/14/2013

In 2004, while testifying before the R.I. Joint Oversight Committee for Healthcare, I suggested that subscribers were largely responsible for out-of-control health care costs. I struck a nerve, because the next day The Providence Journal announced, “Blue Cross blames subscribers for cost increases.” The headline had a kernel of truth, but it cartoonized the reality…

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