Lawsuit To Test Physicians Health Services Prescription Limits
Hartford Courant: December 15, 1999
The state alleges that Physicians Health Services uses price, not
quality, to determine its drug formularies - lists of medications
covered under a given insurance policy - thus posing a threat to patient
health.
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Aetna HMO Practices Under State Probe
Hartford Courant: September 29, 1999
Connecticut State Attorney General will look at whether the financial
incentives Aetna uses to keep costs down actually hurt patients by
rewarding doctors who deliver less care.
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Conn. Doctors Ask Attorney General To Examine Aetna Contract
Hartford Courant: September 30, 1999
Tired of what they describe as heavy-handed tactics that put profits
ahead of patient care, doctors in Connecticut are firing a new salvo in
their escalating battle with the insurance industry. Their target:
Hartford's Aetna Inc.
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Patients
Fear Link Between Profits, Quality Of Care
Hartford Courant: October 18, 1999
A Connecticut poll asked people to what extent they thought financial
pressures influence their own doctors' decisions about medical care.
Nearly two-thirds of those polled saw a link between money and medical
decision-making.
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U. S. Rep. Nancy Johnson gets "Weasel Award" from local access program
NEWS&VIEWS gave Republican congressional representative, Nancy
Johnson, its "Weasel Award" for her recent "No" vote
on the Patients' Bill of Rights.
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New England Journal of Medicine Editorial
Says Evidence Against For-Profit Hospitals Now Conclusive
PRESS RELEASE - PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
August 5, 1999
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Quality of Care
Lower in For-Profit HMOs than in Non-Profits
PRESS RELEASE - PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Tuesday, July 13, 1999
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Health
Mangling Organizations?
by Mike DeRosa
Corporations have hijacked the HMO idea
and have turned it into a cash cow for their interests. They have
reduced health services (especially preventive services), increased
co-payments and fees, and have negatively altered the ability of doctors
to practice medicine.
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Nader's
Letter to Senate and Congressional Leadership on HMO's (July 15,
1999)
by Ralph Nader.
Unless HMO reform addresses the
imbalances of power and the business-as- usual, profits-before-patients approach of HMO corporations, the public will
neither be safe nor satisfied.
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Corporate
Medicine Is Bad Medicine
by John R. Battista, M.D.
Corporate medicine is bad
medicine because it compromises patient care, is administratively
inefficient, and involves unethical practices.
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Open Letter to America's Pharmaceutical CEOs
By U.S. Congressman Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
September 20, 1999
You have repeatedly told the American people -- who pay significantly
higher prices for drugs than any other nation in the world -- that any
reduction in prices will cause you to drastically curtail your research.
Frankly, it's difficult for some of us to take your threats seriously.
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