The increasing likelihood for mergers among medical insurers concerns healthcare providers who worry that the plans will have too much clout over medical care, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
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Cuts are expected in the subsidies that the government pays health insurers to run private Medicare programs in 2010, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.