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...members, tired of wading through red tape and waiting for referrals, don't necessarily mind making that trip. On a snowy morning in Denver, Yvonne Leyba, an airlines reservation clerk, sat in the crowded waiting room in the emergency department at St. Anthony Central Hospital complaining about abdominal pain. She had tried to see a specialist but had been told it would take hours to get a referral. "I needed help," says Leyba. Even so, she expects "a fight" for coverage...
...being subsidized on the backs of other, moneymaking parts of the hospital. But with the funding cuts in 1997's balanced-budget agreement added to managed care's fiscal pressures, that cushion has all but disappeared. And later this year, new Medicare payment schemes could cause even greater pain for both EDs and ambulance services. "The HMOs and the government have taken the fat out of the system, which used to cover the cost of emergency care," says Dr. Leo Berkenbile, who runs the ED at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., the state where EMS is most under siege...
...have always found him to be a real pain in the neck," Capuano quipped. "We'll give you whatever you want, just to shut you up," he added...
...recognition of Chechnya's independence. He is waging a classic guerrilla struggle, aimed at public opinion and the political elite in Moscow. The objective is to undermine Russia's confidence that its war aims can be achieved, by embarrassing the leadership and inflicting an intolerable degree of pain...
...pain on the battlefield was preceded by confusion in the corridors of power. Two days before the attacks, the Russian government declared a cease-fire for reasons it could not quite explain. Then the Kremlin announced that two top, hard-line field commanders in Chechnya were being replaced. Then they said the generals, Gennadi Troshev and Vladimir Shamanov, were not being replaced, just rotated back to their previous posts...