Word: hmos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after they are admitted, and would give them a say in the way the plans are run. "It's really ironic," says Senator Bob Packwood. "For years the A.M.A. and the other medical societies would not even let HMO doctors join them. Now they are fighting to get into HMOs...
...provide something close to universal coverage is making the fight to secure patients even more intense. Even the public hospitals that have long served the poor and uninsured find that they must compete with managed-care plans. In New York State, about 275,000 Medicaid patients have joined HMOs during the past three years under a state program intended to save money by keeping them out of emergency rooms for toothaches and ear infections. In an effort to hold on to their patients, the public hospitals are waging marketing campaigns that include giving away hats and flashlights. In today...
...government decided that there wasa shortage of 500,000 physicians. Now the samepeople that were saying we had a shortage say thatwe have 100,000 too many," he says. "If we were tohave total managed care, some of the HMOs say thatwe wouldn't need any more primary care doctors...
Sylvester Schieber, a benefits consultant, asserts further that to hold down costs the planners want "to push people ultimately into health-maintenance organizations and for those HMOs to compete with each other. But they know that a lot of people don't want to go into HMOs." So they are offered fee- for-service plans and the right to go outside an HMO for some services. Result: still more complication...
...films of the early space age with the sci-fi of today. Compare 2001 with Robocop, Close Encounters with The Terminator. Compare John Kennedy's thrilling pledge to race to the moon with . . . what? No politician talks that way anymore. The new frontier is not the moon. It's HMOs...