AAP News Vol. 1 No. 4 April 1985, p. 5
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GM puts the breaks on health care costs

As an increasing number of employers and insurers examine ways to contain health care costs, one of the nation's major corporations this month is implementing a program which it hopes will decrease its growing annual medical bill.

In contract negotiations completed last year. General Motors Corporatioon and the United Auto Workers agreed to a program which will allow most employees to choose from among three health care coverage options. The program will, for the first time, offer GM employees the opportunity to obtain coverage for child health supervision services, a goal long sought by the Academy. Known as the Informed Choice Plan, the program went into effect April 1.