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...principally by competing private plans or by the traditional government-run plan. The current House bill contains significant incentives for seniors to leave the conventional Medicare plan in 2010 and join private HMOs and other managed care insurers. This is likely to become controversial because, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll, 63 percent of seniors would prefer to receive their benefits from the current government Medicare program—as opposed to 19 percent who would prefer that benefits were managed by private health plans...
...blow my tent over, and I was constantly out of breath. But as bad as it was, I'd sooner do it all again than repeat what I went through after the bubble burst." Is he out to climb more mountains? Undoubtedly; he's not afraid of heights. --By Kaiser Kuo/Chengdu
...persists that UTStarcom operates in a gray area--even as Little Smart rolls out in the MII's backyard. "But that's not necessarily a bad thing," says Wu. "Potential competitors are not willing to get into the market." Not everyone is cut out to be a revolutionary. --By Kaiser Kuo/Beijing
...NPDB any revocation, suspension or restriction of a doctor's clinical privileges for more than 30 days. But hospitals don't always comply. By the end of 2001, 55% of all nonfederal hospitals registered with the NPDB had not reported a single disciplinary action against a doctor. (Two Kaiser administrators paid nearly $20,000 to settle with the state after failing to report McEnany, and the medical center says reporting procedures "are definitely different...
That's why Raymond Hilson didn't know about the $200,000 settlement that Kaiser paid in 1992 to Richard Lord and his family for the loss of his wife Eleanor, who, according to the California investigation, bled to death while in McEnany's care. If Hilson had known more, he says, he would have gone elsewhere. Learning the surgeon's history has made him see things in a different light. Strange as it may sound, he says, "I feel lucky to be a survivor." --By Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles