HMO's
My topic of discussion is going to deal with Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO). My issue is Should patients in the U.S. choose an HMO as their health care provider? Very controversial subject right now and also will continue to be in the future. Although a majority of Americans believe the health system will take care of them if they are injured or ill, six in ten are unhappy with the system, more than half say fundamental charges are needed (Anonymous,2 1999). People are very unhappy with the care they are receiving. According to the critics polled quality is declining and the doctor patient relationship isn't what it used to be. While life expectancy is on the rise, studies show that half or more of the heart-attack patients don't receive the beta blockers needed to reduce their risk of another attack(Watson 1999). A numerous number of cancer patients are not receiving care for their condition. And each year hospital patients die from drug re
According to a article in the November eighth issue of Newsweek, "HMO executives say patients often don't know how good their care actually is". They are appealing to these groups of people because their income is either fixed or limited and HMO's are relatively affordable. Advocacy HMO's are on the rise in this day in age. With the HMO patients are restricted to one doctor unless a patient goes through the steps of getting a referral to see another doctor. HMO's have a lack of focus or preventative medicine, they stash their money instead of furthering research. Anonymous 1999 Most elderly who lost HMO's bought worse health plans. The end of this paragraph contains a hyperbole by saying their HMO finished 15 out of 100 in a pole done by Newsweek. "If consumer's realized that the product their buying is smoke and mirrors with a dash of snake oil, the managed care companies would be out of business" (Anonymous,3 1999).
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