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...study published last week found that managed care patients receive higher quality care, on average, if they are covered by not-for-profit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) than if they are covered by for-profit HMOs...
...study has far-reaching implications since so many Americans use for-profit HMOs, according to the study's authors...
Since fiscal year 1994, HSA's revenues have grown an average of 14.65 percent each year-due in large part to strong profits by its one for-profit subsidiary, Let's Go Publications, which yields nearly half of HSA's total revenue. Last year HSA turned about a $500,000 profit, which was reinvested in the company, according to Catherine J. Turco '99, outgoing HSA president...
...better place. He neglects to remind his readers that there is a third, albeit relatively unpublicized, possibility: Put your mind and skills to work in a field that will pay you reasonably, tap your creativity and expose you to worlds you haven't yet encountered. Some of these are for-profit, some could be called non-profit, but all have the potential to provide rewarding careers. A short list would include publishing, journalism, political organizing, foundation work, TV or radio production, software, product and graphic design and arts management...
...internships and fellowships, just for the chance to work 100-hour weeks, live on hospital food, only rarely find time to see their families or to exercise, and drive cars that are not as fancy as the ones owned by their colleagues down the road at the fancy for-profit hospital. They chose Duke largely because of the scientists here and the work they do; yet they have come to realize that today their survival depends on decisions being made by the suits down the hall in the business office...