Word: treatment
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Anyone who watched Senate Democrats wax hysterical over managed care's evils while Republicans passed their milder version of HMO reform last week can be forgiven for not knowing two essential facts. First, 97% of treatment decisions by doctors are okayed by managed-care plans, one study shows. So those grisly stories repeated from the Senate floor--the woman who didn't get the catheterization and died--are true exceptions. Next, about 40 states already give patients some of the protections Democrats sought in their broader "bill of rights." The disingenuousness was bipartisan, of course. The Republicans, who had gleefully...
...leading the Tour de France, there'd be no way I'd believe you," says Armstrong as he stretches his thigh muscles in a hotel room along the race circuit. He is taut and lean, and his close-cropped brown hair has replaced the temporary baldness caused by his treatment--three months of debilitating chemotherapy and a brain operation to remove the tumors...
Hospitals also suffered losses from the recent trend of private health insurers passing more responsibility for the costs of patient treatment to the tighter fists of managed care programs...
Hospitals also suffered losses from the recent trend of private health insurers passing more responsibility for the costs of patient treatment to the tighter fists of managed care programs...
...everyone. A third of the patients in his study dropped out, and critics wonder whether it's really necessary to cut that much fat--and fun--out of life. But Ornish scoffs at the skeptics. "Rather than literally or figuratively bypassing the problem," he says, "my treatment addresses the cause...