All Posts Tagged With: "HMOs"
Blame Congress for HMOs
Twila Brase, R.N., P.H.N., is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.cchc-mn.org). Only 27 years ago, congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed that American patients should gently but firmly be forced into managed care. That patients do not know this fact is evidenced by public outrage directed at health maintenance [...]
1Feb2001 | Twila Brase | 3 comments | ContinuedWho Pays the Price for Motherhood?
Ross Levatter, M.D., is a physician who writes often on economics and political issues; Rebecca Geshelin is a financial director with an applied economics background. The authors thank David Dorn for providing details of the appropriate federal laws and regulations. Congress, with President Clinton’s approval, recently mandated that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) permit women giving [...]
1Jan1998 | and Ross Levatter | 0 comments | Continued-
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