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Associate Professor of Medicine David U. Himmelstein, who assisted with the study, said the research team developed the idea for the study after analyzing the quality data for HMOs over several years. The doctors noticed that individual HMOs did not appear consistently in the rankings from year to year...
After further investigation of quality ratings from 1997 through 1999, Himmelstein said the researchers discovered a pattern of HMOs performing poorly one year and the next year withdrawing from the rankings...
Himmelstein criticized the ability of HMOs in the current system to evade public scrutiny of their quality rankings...
Himmelstein suggested that a nationalized health care system would ensure quality healthcare and eliminate irresponsible HMOs, which he referred to as “financial middlemen who contract for care...
...least, he advocated more stringent ranking policies or ending the ability of HMOs to withhold their rankings...