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R Haugh

Publications and source records attributed to R Haugh.

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Off target.

Leave it to the market. It's our collective corrective, the American way of problem-solving. So it's no surprise that we looked to the market to stop runaway health care costs. For awhile, it seemed to work. Medicare HMOs, physician practice management, risk contracting, and other innovations boomed. Then came the setbacks, exposing health care's complexities and contradictions--and reminding us that nothing escapes market discipline.

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The ratings slide. Are we headed for a capital crisis?

On hospital credit ratings, the news is tough and tougher--what many industry watchers call a capital crisis in the making. Rating agencies contend the situation has been building for years, even while hospital margins reached historic highs as recently as 1997. "Then everything fell apart at the seams," says one bond rating pro.

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