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Health Care Programs
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Health Care Programs
A social work perspective looking at health maintenance organizations, Medicare, the uninsured, policy changes and proposals.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages) |
12 sources |
1992
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"Health Maintenance OrganizationsBoland (1991) reports that, although health maintenance organizations (HMOs) offer employers and insurance companies ways to substantially curb health-care costs, there are still concerns that contracts fail to further reduce such outlays. At issue is that HMOs have phenomenal start-up costs that necessarily build in concerns for revenue generation. This means that HMO administrators will look for any way possible to reduce operation expenditures, including the implementation of policies that may result in clients not receiving the necessary care, clients receiving such care in shorter than indicated time-frames, and in pressuring employees to work harder, leading to increased stress and dissatisfaction. In addition to these, HMOs generally lack the ability to provide for physician continuity, in that these..."
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