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Best’s Briefing: Stabilizing Costs, Profitability Upswing Keys to Reversing US Health Outlook

To shake its negative outlook, the United States health insurance segment needs a cooling of growing medical cost and utilization trends, improved loss ratios and a return to overall operating . . .

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