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New York Times The United Health Group said yesterday that it was returning decision-making power over patient care to physicians, breaking with…
Nov 9, 1999Riverside Press-Enterprise Recent trends within the health-care industry may help avert a collapse of the medical-group system and a mass disruption of…
Nov 9, 1999First Major Policy Shift By An HMO to Patient and Physician Complaints; Other HMOs Asked To Allow Practicing Doctors To Decide Medical…
Nov 8, 1999The special-interest sponsors of an insurance measure are playing a complicated game with the voters.Los Angeles Times There's nothing new about special…
Nov 7, 1999Soaring Construction Costs, Vanishing Replacement Policies Leave Most UnderinsuredSan Francisco Chronicle If a fire were to level your house tomorrow, do you…
Nov 2, 1999San Diego Union-Tribune Kent Manthorne's troubles began with the discovery of a strange little blotch on his right ear. Years before, he…
Oct 31, 1999The San Diego Union-Tribune Imagine being asked to adopt a child, then, after seeing that infant through its first difficult years, being…
Oct 31, 1999American Health Line Despite Wall Street's support of his "gloves-off" approach to the class-action lawsuit against Aetna, company CEO Richard Huber is…
Oct 27, 1999Relationship between money, health hits skidsUSA TODAY Employers' recent love affair with managed care -- a slimmer, younger, less expensive version of…
Oct 20, 1999Coalition Seeks Support for ReferendumBoston Globe Tapping into the same populist outrage against health maintenance organizations and for-profit medicine that has led…
Oct 19, 1999Do Exclusive Contracts Give the Defense an Unfair AdvantageLawyers Weekly USA Most lawyers walk into a deposition assuming that the court reporter…
Oct 18, 1999Associated Press The state should take steps to make sure its health maintenance organizations remain non-profit, activists said Monday. "Non-profit medicine is…
Oct 18, 1999Expensive Campaign is Expected in Drive to Gather at Least 400,000 Signatures Needed to Put the Measure on the Ballot. The Law…
Oct 14, 1999Sacramento Bee A coalition of insurance companies and other groups announced Tuesday that it will seek a March 2000 statewide ballot referendum…
Oct 13, 1999San Diego Union Tribune A coalition of insurers and business groups, contending that legislation signed by Gov. Gray Davis could drive up…
Oct 13, 1999California's Experience With HMO Reform Offers Lessons For Nation
Oct 13, 1999The New York Times The debate leading up to the House vote last week to expand patients' rights was punctuated by a…
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