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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Accountants in the Operating Room? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Professor of Health Policy Robert J. Blendon said Bloom's Public Health Bill of Rights is "an important statement...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPH Dean Attacks Congressional Bill | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPH Dean Attacks Congressional Bill | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...Blendon added that the Patients' Bill of Rights "is a very important bill to address an important but narrowly focused problem...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPH Dean Attacks Congressional Bill | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...members said they were aware of Blendon's objection but chose to take the categories directly from the Harvard admissions form...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poll Attempts an Unbiased Methodology | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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