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David gets a job as an internist with the local HMO, while Angela gets an offer from the local hospital as a pathologist. The story takes aim at managed care and health maintenance organizations. David and Angela quickly find out that their idyllic town harbors dark secrets. Patients at the local hospital keep dying prematurely.
Kleinke's earliest written work involved critical economic analysis of the first generation of managed care. His first book, Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century, published in 1998, was a harsh critique of the economic conflict generated by the imposition of untested managed care methods on what was at the time an antiquated, fragmented health care financing and ...
Managed care plans and strategies proliferated and quickly became nearly ubiquitous in the U.S. However, this rapid growth led to a consumer backlash. Because many managed care health plans are provided by for-profit companies, their cost-control efforts are driven by the need to generate profits and not providing health care. [5]
Damaged Care is an American television film which aired on May 26, 2002, on Showtime.The film is based on the story of the real-life Linda Peeno, a physician and medical reviewer for managed care organizations who becomes a vocal critic of the American healthcare system after witnessing the prioritization of profit over patient care.
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...
"Hula," Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes' novel of a girl coming of age in Hilo, Hawaii, was a true labor of love in many ways, for an author who struggled to get her story out.
A release is the most likely outcome for the two-time Pro Bowl selection, who has managed to play seven games in each of the last two seasons. Despite Green Bay's deficiencies at the position ...
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