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...Health Care (HPHC), the ailing health maintenance organization, is still weighing heavily on the hands of state officials. As of yet, there has been no plan announced for HPHC's bailout. Further complicating matters this week, the state and the University are now embroiled in a lawsuit over the HMO's right to the Harvard brand name. Although this quibbling points to legitimate concerns on both sides, it would be a shame if it ultimately interfered with HPHC's bailout and non-profit future...
HPHC, a health maintenance organization (HMO) serving 1.1 million members in Massachusetts, came under state control in early January after it encountered nearly $200 million in losses last year. The state is currently looking for a way to restore the company to financial health...
...body is that there's no blood. Why, then, do these pictures remind me of the hospital? Because sanitation is a funny thing. Unerotic pictures of the naked body always look clinical, as if LoCurto and Outcault were undergoing a simple procedure. Something very out-patient, covered by the HMO--something that might only hurt for a second. The catch, of course, is that they are: if these pictures tell us anything in the context of portraiture, they tell us what someone looks like, sort of, when they are being scanned...
...Reilly said the timing of Fineberg's letter "placed a cloud" over the already difficult process of rehabilitating Harvard Pilgrim--a task that has fallen to the state and to its insurance commissioner, Linda L. Ruthardt, who serves as the state-appointed receiver of the HMO...
...Wrinn said the University has not ruled out the possibility of the HMO using "Harvard" in its name...