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...being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits. "In the fee-for-service days, there was a very perverse system that rewarded doctors for doing way too much medicine," says Dr. David Lawrence, chairman and ceo of California's huge, and nonprofit, Kaiser Permanente. "Now we have a system creating incentives to do too little." Dr. Alan Fogelman, head of UCLA's Department of Medicine, thunders, "People who are sick will be allowed to die because it's the best economically...
...among profit-making HMOs, there is a wide range. One managed-care plan in New Jersey spent only 59% of its premium dollars on care, while some California for-profit HMOs pay out as much as 88%. But few of the profitmakers pay out as much as the best nonprofit plans: 89% for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 94% for Kaiser...
...leader for the project's second phase, Kamarck will work with Nye to examine the changing roles of governments, private firms and nonprofit organizations in modern democracies...
Despite initial setbacks, the nonprofit ICIC now appears to have begun bridging the cultural gap separating the Harvard Business School's (HBS) leafy Allston campus from the struggling Roxbury start-ups it seeks to help...
...There's such a housing shortage [in Cambridge] that they're still setting limits," says Maureen Spofford, director of Cambridge Cares, a nonprofit organization that offers daycare services, educational outreach and case management to HIV-positive Cambridge and Somerville residents...