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Associate Professor of Medicine David U. Himmelstein, who assisted with the study, said the research team developed the idea for the study after analyzing the quality data for HMOs over several years. The doctors noticed that individual HMOs did not appear consistently in the rankings from year to year...
After further investigation of quality ratings from 1997 through 1999, Himmelstein said the researchers discovered a pattern of HMOs performing poorly one year and the next year withdrawing from the rankings...
There was a Harvard professor (the Medical School's David Himmelstein), who said the nation's healthcare system was "fucked up." There were political party staff members wearing open-toed sandals. Speakers quoting from Abbie Hoffman...
...just blue-collar employees who are expected to check their freedom of speech at the company door. In mid-December, Boston physician David Himmelstein was fired for going public about the gag clause in his employer's contract with doctors, forbidding them to "make any communication which undermines or could undermine the confidence...of the public in U.S. Healthcare..." or even revealing that this clause is in their contract...
...construed as interfering with the physician-patient relationship. Doctors are encouraged to have open communications with their patients, about treatment, coverage, benefits, even the mechanism by which they are paid. It's just the specific dollar amounts that are to be withheld." But the contract terms cited by Himmelstein seem to prescribe a far greater circumspection from doctors than that...