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- Improving Health Care Delivery For All Americans. Smoak, Jr., Randolph D. // Vital Speeches of the Day;10/15/2000, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p11
Presents a speech given by Randolph D. Smoak, Jr., president-elect of the American Medical Association, which was delivered as part of a lecture series at the Medical School of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on May 26, 2000. Opinion that all Americans have the right to health...
- Drive more data. Miller, Julie // Managed Healthcare Executive;Mar2009, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p7
The article reports on the need for managed care plans to prepare for more complex reporting for their aggregated data in response to U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal for health care reform. Experts predict that federal regulators could evaluate the Health Insurance Portability and...
- Causal Chains and Cost Shifting: How Medicare 's Rescue Inadvertently Triggered the Managed-Care Revolution. Mayes, Rick // Journal of Policy History;Apr2004, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p144
The conventional wisdom on how managed care came to replace traditional fee-for-service reimbursement as the nation's dominant mode of health insurance is that enlightened businesses and their employers led the way in responding to the emergence of market forces in health care in the 1990s. It...
- Impassioned opposition works both ways. Miller, Julie // Managed Healthcare Executive;May2010, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p1
The article discusses the author's sentiments about the opposition on the passage of healthcare reform in the U.S. She says that opposition of many Americans regarding the policy will die down and states' abilities to implement coverage will become the bigger issue. She emphasizes that one...
- Newly eligible will join health plan risk pools. Krizner, Ken // Managed Healthcare Executive;May2010, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p6
The article discusses the pool of potential enrollees in managed care organizations as a result of the healthcare reform in the U.S. The new law provides for an expansion of recipients and dependent children for Medicaid and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). It...
- Clinton's Dying Plan. Buckley Jr., William F. // National Review;4/18/1994, Vol. 46 Issue 7, p63
The article criticizes the universal healthcare plan proposed by the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The true universal healthcare reform comes when the money goes from management to the insured. An alternative to the proposed healthcare plan would be the Forbes Plan. The Forbes...
- Universal Mandatory Health Insurance In The Netherlands: A Model For The United States? van de Ven, Wynand P. M. M.; Schut, Frederik T. // Health Affairs;May/Jun2008, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p771
Policy analysts consider the Netherlands health system a possible model for the United States. Since 2006 all Dutch citizens have to buy standardized individual health insurance coverage from a private insurer. Consumers have an annual choice among insurers, and insurers can selectively contract...
- Bank on positive outlook for managed care stocks. Miller, Julie // Managed Healthcare Executive;Dec2011, Vol. 21 Issue 12, p1
The article reports on the positive outlook for managed care stocks in the U.S. in 2012. It notes that the increasing empowerment of certain states to evaluate and reject premium rate increases will boost managed care's ability to manage margins successfully. However, it mentions that the...
- The Clinical Voice of Managed Care. Epstein, David C. // Physician Executive;Jul/Aug2010, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p42
In this article the author discusses the roles of managed care industry in the health care reform in the U.S. He notes that Americans conceive health plans and insurance companies as barriers to health reform in which he also cites that Americans are satisfied with health care coverage in the...
