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...Congress pass a patient's bill of rights?" he asked. "Because Democrats are gridlocked by trial lawyers who want everybody to sue everybody for everything, and Republicans are gridlocked by insurance companies and HMOs who give huge amounts of money." Soon he's rumbling through the domestic agenda like a tank. "The tax code is 44,000 pages long--why can't we reform it? Because of the grip of the special interests." He even applies his worldview to the G.O.P.'s $792 billion tax cut, which Clinton vetoed in September. "It included special tax breaks...
...increase in for-profit medicine, such as health management organizations (HMOs), has also hurt both those with and without insurance, she said...
...quality of for-profit medicine is lower than that of non-profit medicine," Woolhandler said. "In HMOs, there are incentives for cutting back care. There is a lot of dissatisfaction driven by the fact that HMOs don't want to enroll sick people...
WHAT THEY GAVE HMOs, insurers: To Dems $811,000 To G.O.P...
...cash in on the alternative boom, are luring subscribers by offering to cover some of these dubious treatments. But most consumers of alternate products use conventional medicine too, and when it becomes evident that the alternatives are not cost effective and at best produce only a placebo effect, the HMOs will drop them in a heartbeat. Says William Jarvis, a professor of public health at California's Loma Linda University: "Useless procedures don't add to the outcome, just to the overhead...