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Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that the experts who know health maintenance organizations (HMOs) best avoid them the most when picking a plan for themselves and their families...
...What is clear from our results is that it’s the physicians, the people who are closest to the bedside and who almost certainly have the most direct experience with managed care, who were the least likely to choose HMOs,” said David Studdert, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of health policy and management...
Instead of HMOs, the experts surveyed predominantly chose fee-for-service and point-of-service health care options...
...financial considerations. Monday, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said the administration hopes to achieve "maximum parity" in insurance coverage "without driving up costs so high that people lose insurance in the end." According to the American Association of Health Plans, a trade group representing more than 1,000 HMOs, a true parity proposal would add "billions of dollars to health-care costs." Higher bills, the employers' lobby warns, would translate into higher health care premiums for both employers and employees...
What is true of medical devices is also true of medical practitioners. The quantity of medical school applicants has dropped off in recent years, probably because of the poor image of HMOs. A drop in quality will not be long in coming. Should the government lower doctors’ revenues by further intruding into medicine, potential doctors will instead choose to be scientists, lawyers or management consultants; the price of quality health care will be driven ever higher...