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By Charles Stein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 25--TOMORROW'S HMO IS HERE, BUT WILL CONSUMERS BUY IT? Executives at Tufts Health Plan have seen the future of health insurance and they think it just might work. "I think potentially what we are talking about is as radical an innovation as HMOs were 30 years ago," said Jon Kingsdale, senior vice president at the Waltham HMO. Next month Tufts will roll out its version of a consumer-driven health plan. In the health insurance world, consumer-driven plans are the new new thing. They are also controversial. The concept is pretty basic. To slow the growth of medical costs, consumers have to…