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...incentives for doctors to provide too much costly treatment--continue to shrink. The result has been a welcome reduction in the runaway growth of medical costs and, for many people, simpler, better coverage of their real needs. But as in any adolescence, there are signs of rebellion. An ominous backlash has begun...
...backlash is cutting across all segments. Doctors are banding together to bargain with HMOs or even offer their own health plans, and so are some unions. Employers started the managed-care revolution by herding their workers into HMOs, but now a third of companies polled by the Washington Business Group on Health express concern that the pressure to keep costs down is hurting the quality of care their employees receive...
Oddly, Choice Plus was not created in reaction to any bitter consumer backlash. Minnesota law requires all managed-care plans to be nonprofit, so there was no suspicion that patients were being shortchanged for the benefit of Wall Street. And 87% of the state's citizens tell pollsters they are satisfied with their medical care. But workers did grumble about cumbersome approval procedures, the need to change physicians whenever companies changed medical plans, and limited choices...
...current backlash of the extreme right stems from the forsaking of moderate liberal ideology in the late '60s, Rosenblatt said...
...backlash grew worse early last week when the privately funded American Cancer Society announced that it was tightening its own recommendations and calling for once-a-year mammograms for all women in their 40s. That announcement seemed to bring the matter to a head. On Thursday, Klausner convened a press conference to announce that his organization was retracting its panel's vague January recommendation and replacing it with a far more definitive one. Women between 40 and 49, the NCI announced, should undergo mammography every one to two years. Women at high risk for the disease--those with a family...