We have met the future: managed care.
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Health Benefit Plans, Employee↗
Biomedical subjects
J Kosterlitz
Publications and source records attributed to J Kosterlitz.
Survival tactics.
Once seen as stubborn naysayers, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association are trying a kinder, gentler approach to the health care reform debate. For both groups, it's a matter of survival.
American Hospital Association↗
Wanted: GPs.
Too many physicians are being trained as specialists and not enough as generalists. As a result, the nation's health care system emphasizes high-cost, high-technology medicine at the expense of basic and preventive care.
Education, Medical↗
AIDS wars.
At the Centers for Disease Control, director William L. Roper battles the deadly AIDS epidemic and other rising health hazards. But critics say political interference sets back the effort to stem AIDS.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
High-wire act.
Food and Drug Administration chief David A. Kessler balances the instincts of a tough regulatory enforcer against the political realities of serving a President who preaches free-market values.
Administrative Personnel↗
Managing Medicaid.
State medicaid officials are eager to take advantage of cost control techniques offered by managed care health plans. But advocates for medicaid patients oppose the easing of safeguards against possible abuses.
Cost Control↗
A sick system.
After nearly two decades of skyrocketing costs, widespread gaps in insurance coverage and overwhelming public sentiment in favor of reform, health care has finally taken hold as a political issue. The Bush Administration, key Capitol Hill lawmakers and most of the major Democratic presidential candidates have advanced plans to break Washington's gridlock on overhauling the system. Here's a road map of the competing routes to reform and the hazards that are likely to be encountered along the way.
Cost Control↗
The growth industry.
As health care consumes an increasing share of the economic pie, critics say the nation's competitive position is at risk. But social and moral arguments for health reforms may prove more compelling.
Cost Control↗
Middle-class Medicaid.
Medicaid was designed to help the nation's poor. But with help from government and smart lawyers, relatively well-to-do Americans are finding new ways to have the program pick up their nursing-home bills.
Financing, Personal↗
Educated guesswork.
Just about everyone applauds the use of cost estimates for federal programs as a way to curb the federal government's tendency to spend in the face of rising budget deficits. But a nagging question arises: Just how good are these cost estimates?
Costs and Cost Analysis↗
Don't look to states for a cure.
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Health Policy↗
Healthward ho!
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American Hospital Association↗
Malpractice morass.
Political maneuvering, not a medical crisis, has moved the malpractice issue to the fore on Capitol Hill. But it isn't likely to go anywhere until health care reform does.
Health Policy↗
High-wire health care act.
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Cost Control↗
A brave new world for doctors.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗
How should Medicare pay doctors?
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History, 20th Century↗