Health and Fitness
Health and Fitness | HMOs Do Not Meet Patients' Needs
In an effort to control costs, many in the health care industry have embraced the concept of managed care. Under managed care, insurance companies attempt to avoid paying for excessive or unnecessary procedures by regulating the services doctors give to patients. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are one type of managed care system. In the following viewpoint, Vince Passaro describes his visit to an HMO illustrate his view that such organizations provide poor care. Passaro is a fiction writer and the director of communications at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
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