Word: hmos
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...patient surveys on the quality of care received. The VA scored 83 out of 100; private institutions, 71. Males 65 years and older receiving VA care had about a 40% lower risk of death than those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, whose care is provided through private health plans or HMOs, according to a study published in the April edition of Medical Care. Harvard University just gave the VA its Innovations in American Government Award for the agency's work in computerizing patient records...
...uninsured city dwellers will gain access to basic medical services they otherwise couldn't afford. While not free, the care will come at sharply reduced costs. Enrollment fees will range from $3 to $201, depending on participants' incomes. Most, however, will pay $35 a month-far less than what HMOs typically charge...
...employed - no longer Medicaid eligible - and she had paid $45 for the clinic visit that day. And because she wasn't in any health plan that could strong arm down the hospital bill - they got about $800 for the half-hour use of the 'local room' from HMOs - she was vulnerable to the full-ticket "private fee". Rosa could barely afford the $45 for clinic. She was going to have to live with the pain...
...face down on their own. The very existence of the law, however, has focused Oregon doctors' attention on end-of-life care, spurring them to take extra training in complex pain management and encouraging them to refer patients to hospice care earlier than before. And, while critics feared that HMOs, insurance companies or relatives might subtly encourage suicide because it is cheaper than treatment, only 3% of those who took the lethal prescriptions cited financial considerations as a reason, according to state surveys of their doctors. The reasons most gave: "losing autonomy" and "less able to engage in activities making...
...Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis asked voters whether they wanted “a president who fights for the privileged few, or a president who fights for you.” In 2000, Al Gore ’69 argued that while Republicans fought for “big HMOs, big oil [and] the big insurance companies,” he was “fighting for the people.” And this year, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., very originally declared that his “campaign is about fighting big oil, fighting big HMOs and insurance...