Word: blendon
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...past year scrutinizing doctors' recommended treatments, and, according to plan officials, ended up approving 99 percent of them. To trim these costs, executives have turned to a novel idea: Let the doctors decide what treatments are medically necessary, and let it go at that. "It's just extraordinary," Robert Blendon, a Harvard University professor of health policy, told The Dallas Morning News. "Here they are saying that there are other ways to save money without rationing care. It removes a fundamental tenet of how these plans have been operating in order to be cost-effective...
...Professor of Health Policy Robert J. Blendon said Bloom's Public Health Bill of Rights is "an important statement...
...lost sight of how many lives could be saved by not looking at some of the broader health issues that face the country," Blendon said...
...Blendon added that the Patients' Bill of Rights "is a very important bill to address an important but narrowly focused problem...
...members said they were aware of Blendon's objection but chose to take the categories directly from the Harvard admissions form...