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...deMeurerses began a three-year encounter with "managed health care" and the powerful forces that are fast reshaping the culture and practice of medicine in America--not just cutting costs but changing in a fundamental way how doctors view patients, and perhaps how patients should now view doctors. In a three-month investigation, TIME chronicled Christy deMeurers' journey, but also the parallel, interlocking story of Health Net, one very prosperous company in the Southern California market, a hotbed of managed care that offers a living demonstration of what's likely to occur everywhere else as the new medicine continues...
The talk at the meeting quickly turned to the matter of patient deception. "The biggest problem," Glaspy told the Health Net officials present, "is when they come to a center and they don't come with a pre-call from you, so we don't know who they are, and...
Ossorio identified himself to Slamon and with little preamble asked whether UCLA was still in accord with Health Net's guidelines. Slamon said yes. Then why, Ossorio asked, was UCLA going to transplant a Health Net subscriber named deMeurers?
At the last minute, UCLA put its promise to pay in writing, thus ending the need for an injunction. On Sept. 23 Christy entered the medical center to begin treatment. Whether the treatment worked or not depends on who is speaking. Health Net officials are quick to point out how...
By spring 1994, she had fallen ill again. That summer the family took a cross-country camping trip expressly with the goal of building happy memories for the children. A friend arranged a behind-the-scenes tour of the White House, and the kids got to play with Socks, the...