Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J Kosterlitz.
Washington--and Americans--are at a crossroads between the collective approach to social security and medicare and the corporate trend toward self-reliance. Workers may become more prudent consumers as they assume responsibility for retirement and health care costs, but the disadvantaged may find it difficult to provide for their own needs.
Andy Stern, new head of the Service Employees International Union, has set his sights on the nation's health care industry, linking workers' rights with consumer protection. The union's strategy is on display in California, where managed care has made dramatic inroads and financially pinched hospitals are shedding workers.
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Changes in the health care marketplace have outpaced many of the laws and regulations that were intended to protect patients. Consumer advocates want new safeguards, but employers and the managed care industry warn that could raise the cost of coverage.
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The interest groups that helped defeat health care reform aren't uncorking the champagne yet. Some fear a new push for regulation and cost cutting in Washington and in state capitals. And some want to salvage pieces of the President's reform plan that would have benefited them.
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The nation's most prestigious medical schools and teaching hospitals like the idea of comprehensive health care reform. And little wonder: Thanks to aggressive lobbying and some powerful friends, they seem to have gotten just about everything on their wish list--and then some--in the leading reform plans now under consideration on Capitol Hill.
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Many lawmakers are shying away from performing radical surgery on the health care system and are opting instead for what appears to be a low-risk treatment of incremental reforms. But half-remedies and inaction carry their own risks.
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When President Clinton finally unveiled his plan to overhaul the nation's health care system last October, he was riding high in the polls and the early reviews were promising. What went wrong?
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