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• From The RHCD Committee

  • How-to's

    • How to Conduct a RHCD Teach - In
    • How to contact a legislator to get him or her to sign up for RHCD
    • How to invite a local politician to speak at a RHCD event  NEW 02/15/00 
    • How to publicize your event   NEW 02/21/00 
    • General Ideas for RHCD Events
    • Ideas for RHCD Events
    • Letter to attract people to your event  NEW 02/27/00 
    • More Ideas for RHCD Events  NEW 02/13/00 
    • A Petition to the Congress of the United States - No More HMOs -  Let’s Build a Better System   NEW 02/27/00 

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• Legislative Alerts, Issues and Testimony

  • Citizen Action

    • Do You Have a PCP? - Are You Sure?  by Charles D. Goodman, M.D. FAAP 

    • Health Reform Inches Ever Closer Report on  a convocation, entitled "Health Coverage 2000 - Meeting the Challenge of the Uninsured" in Washington D.C. on January14, 2000 at the National Press Club by: Arthur L. Kovacs, Ph.D. 
      How Federal Managed Care Legislation Affects You

    • Managed Care Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives

    • State by state bills dealing with health care choices - From FAIM

  • Legislative Action

    • Do You Have a PCP? - Are You Sure?  by Charles D. Goodman, M.D. FAAP 

    • New Legislation Introduced To Ban Predispute Binding Arbitration At HMOs NEW 01/16/00

  • Legislative Testimony

    • Testimony By Robert L. Weinmann, M.D.  (UAPD) Before the House Committee on the Judiciary on H.R.1304, The Quality Health-Care Coalition Act June 22, 1999 

    • Testimony by Robert L. Weinmann, M.D., UAPD AFSCME Local 206, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary regarding HR 4277, The Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 1998, 7/29/98

  • In the Courts

    • HMO's, Under Attack, Face Supreme Court Test 

    • HMO exec files whistle-blower suit  NEW 03/19/00 

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• Web sites for and by those in the MC industry

  • Confessions of an HMO Medical Reviewer   

  • Dorland's Managed Care Register   Produce, Service and Information Resources for healthcare and managed care executives. 

  • Managed Care Information Center   - Providing Essential Management Information to Healthcare Executives

  • Managed Care Executives Online 

  • Managed Care Fact Sheet

  • Managed Care Online  The knowledge resource web site for professionals involved with managed care  

  • Open Minds - An industry research and consulting firm specializing in the behavioral
    health and social service fields.  

  • Psychotherapy Finances

  • Making Sense of Health Insurance  - From the Blue Cross Blue Shield online site

  • Managed Care Magazine

  • Professional Managed Care Resources  

    • Academy for International Healthcare Studies

    • Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

    • Health Care Finance Administration

    • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)

    • Global Managed Care.Com

    • Medline

    • Modern Healthcare

    • National Committee for Quality Assurance

    • Pam Pohly's Net Guide

    • The Managed Care Information Center

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• Web sites dealing with the MC Issue 

  • Legal Sites

    • The Health Administration Responsibility Project

    • Lawsuits against the insurance industry - very informative

    • How Federal Managed Care Legislation Effects You

    • ERISA Liability Legislation  How to Sue Your LTD Insurance Carrier In United States Federal Court Without an Attorney (Pro Se) 

  • Traditional Medical Sites

    • The HMO Page

    • Patients Who Care

    • Physicians Who Care

    • Dissatisfied Physicians

  • Political Sites

    • Libertarian

      • A Health Care Solution: Medical Savings Accounts by Joseph Kellard

      • Clinton Versus Your Health: Clinton's HMO Plan Is Another Attack on Health Care and Freedom by Richard E. Ralston

      • Congress's Wrong Prescription for the HMO Headache by Carrie J. Gavora

      • Cost-Conscious Care: In praise of HMOs by David Jacobsen

      • HMO Phobia: Quack remedies for the health care "crisis" by Thomas Hazlette

      • HMOs' Rise Driven by Government, Not Market by Twila Brase

  • Miscellaneous Sites

    • The Famous List of Managed Care Horror Stories from: The National Health Insurance Citizens Network

    • How HMOs Work 

    • HMO Patients Need to Ask Questions by Georgia Court

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• Innovative Medical Sites

  • FAIM - The Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine

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• Mental Health Sites

  • The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc.

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• Pharmacy Sites

  • Compromising your Drug of Choice How HMOs are dictating your next prescription by Mark Green, NYC Public Advocate

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• Financial Issues

  • A look at the financials of the for-profit healthcare sector by Betsy Owens, C. S. W.

  • The Value of Behavioral Health Benefits Declines in Past Year, Study Finds 

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• Consumer Advocacy Sites

• Capitation - What is it ? 

• Citizens for Choice in Health Care

• Consumer's Guides to  Getting and Keeping Health Insurance

• The Consumer Protection Healthcare Handbook site, by Dr. Anonymous

• The Effectiveness of  Psychotherapy: The Consumer Reports Study - by Martin Seligman, Ph.D. 

• Empower! The Managed Care Patient Advocate

• Erisa Liability Legislation  How to Sue Your LTD Insurance Carrier In United States Federal Court Without an Attorney (Pro Se) 

• Families USA

• Fighting a Denial

• In General

  • Navigating a Managed Care Denial by the Medical Board of California

  • How to Fight your HMO and Win by Mary Halm

  • Insurance Consumer's Battle Manual by Robert Richardson

  • Advice for Members of Managed Care Organizations by David Trueman

  • Right to Know, Grievance page

  • Some advice for Pro Se plaintiffs

  • How to deal with HMO denials

• ERISA HMOs

  • ERISA Litigation Fundamentals by Robert A. Perez Sr.

  • The ERISA Loophole     NEW 01/16/00

  • Challenging ERISA Denials by Edward Connette

  • Sample Pleadings in a case by Anderson & Kill.

  • A very convincing argument by Sharon Arkin for liability of HMOs of Insured plans.

• The Health Administration Responsibility Project

• Health Plan Post Office  Find e-addresses and send e-mail to listed health plans  

• Health Rights Hotline

• The Institute for Health Freedom  

• How to Play HMO Hardball

  • How to deal with HMO denials

  • 10 dirty tricks your HMO doesn't want you to know

• Managed Care: Who's the Patsy?  An article from the Lyme Alliance

• Medicare and MedicAid

  • Medicare Appeals by Edward M. Dale

  • Grijalva v. Shalala Sets standards for Notice and Review. Appeal heard by 9th Circuit in Jan.98

• The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc.

• Needy Meds   Assisting people who can't afford to buy drugs    

• Patients Who Care

• Protection of the Health Care Consumer: The "Truth" Agency  by Regina Herzlinger

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• Consumer Managed Care Sites

  • Consumer Protection Healthcare Handbook Home Page  

  • Foundation for Accountability

  • Government Medicare Consumer Site

  • Managed Care - Remember Your Children from the Children's Medical center of Dallas 

  • Medicare HMO

  • Medicaid Managed Care: FamiliesUSA

  • NCQA Consumers Page

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• Professional Organizations

  • American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy

  • American Association of Physicians and Surgeons - AAPS

  • American Counseling Association

  • American Medical Association 

  • American Psychiatric Association

  • American Psychological Association

  • The American Psychoanalytic Association

  • American Psychiatric Nurses Association

  • The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons NEW 01/03/00

  • California Psychological Association

  • Clinical Social Work Federation

  • Connecticut Psychological Association

  • INDOC Traditional Practice Association of the South Bay (CA)

  • Maryland Psychological Association

  • The Medical Society of New Jersey  

  • Michigan Psychological Association

  • Minnesota Psychological Association

  • National Association of Social Workers

  • New Hampshire Psychological Association

  • New Jersey Psychological Association

  • New York State Nurses Association

  • New York State Psychological Association

  • North Carolina Psychological Association

  • Ohio Psychological Association

  • Patients Assistance League

  • Pennsylvania Psychological Association

  • Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators

  • Rhode Island Psychological Association

  • South Carolina Psychological Association

  • Suffolk County (NY) Psychological Association

  • Texas Psychological Association

  • Union of American Physicians and Dentists

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• Activist Organizations

  • Americans for Fair Taxation 

  • American Mental Health Alliance

  • California Nurses Association

  • CCEMHC Non-profit organization of mental health care consumers and professionals, which advocates for non-managed mental health care

  • Center for Health Care Rights

  • Citizens for Choice in Health Care

  • Connecticut Psychotherapists' Guild

  • The Consumer Protection Healthcare Handbook site, by Dr. Anonymous

  • Corporate Health Documents

  • David Trueman's HMO Page

  • The Disability Benefits Information Website

  • Empower! The Managed Care Patient Advocate

  • Erisa Liability Legislation  How to Sue Your LTD Insurance Carrier In United States Federal Court Without an Attorney (Pro Se) 

  • FAIM - The Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine 

  • Fight your HMO

  • Fighting Managed Care, Marcio Pinheiro

  • The Gray Panthers

  • Mark Gaines' Health Activist Site

  • Health Privacy Project  The Institute for Health Care Policy and Research at Georgetown University

  • Health Rights Hotline

  • HMO Hardball

  • How Federal Managed Care Legislation Affects You

  • The HMO Page

  • Institute for Child Health Policy

  • Masters Program in Health Advocacy, Sarah Lawrence College

  • The Managed Care Liability Project

  • MCARE Presents an examination of and alternatives to managed care, with bibliography

  • National Coalition for Patient Rights

  • National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers

  • NoHMO.com by Ed Sodaro

  • Parity 2000 - Fairness in providing equal insurance benefits and treatment for mental health patients  

  • Patient Access to Specialty Care Coalition

  • Patients Who Care

  • Protection of the Health Care Consumer: The"Truth" Agency by Regina Herzlinger  

  • Psychologists for Patients' Rights

  • Physicians Who Care

  • Dr. Stephen Katz' DOCTORINFORM site

  • Right to Know

  • Union of American Physicians and Dentists

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• Politics

  • Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform   

  • Just What the Donors Ordered: The Health Benefits Coalition and Managed Care Reform

  • The Institute for Health Freedom 

  • The National Center For Policy Analysis   

  • Physicians' unions must be able to strike It may be the best way to protect patient's care By Charles D. Goodman MD.

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• Publications Online

  • Online mirrors of print

    • Aunt Fanny Managed Care

    • Money, Medicine and HMO's by Michael Freeny

    • Psychotherapy Finances: Special Report: A panel of managed care experts weigh the fate of professionals

    • Clarion Call Gets Louder  by Saul Friedman  As published in  Newsday (Long Island, NY), September 25, 1999

    • A Disabled Attorney's Novel Strategy Puts A Civil-Rights Spin on HMO Litigation By Milo  Geyelin - As published in The Wall Street Journal - January 26, 2000

    • Dr. Careful or Dr. Squeeze? By Robert L. Weinmann As published in the San Jose Mercury News, July 1, 1997

    • Happy With Health Care? The American Prospect vol. 11 no. 3, December 20, 1999   

    • HMO's In The ER: A View From The Trenches As published in The Miami Herald  30th, 1995

    • HMOs - Licensed to Kill

    • HMO's, Under Attack, Face Supreme Court Test  By Milt Freudenheim as Published in The New York Times, January, 4, 2000  

    • How Your HMO Could Hurt You  

    • Just Say No!  Doctors are Saying No to Managed Care  by Sara Selis: Healthcare Business, January/February 2000   NEW 03/08/00

    • Point of View "Leaner, meaner" mental health care by Mary Kilburn, Ph.D. From the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer Wednesday, February 26, 1997  

    • Magellan, Magellan, Wherefore Art Thou Magellan? (A Wry Commentary)  by Steven Shearer, Ph.D.  From the Maryland Psychologist, November 1999   

    • Managed Care and Doctors - The Broken Promise Series in Newsday (LI), NY November 14, 1999

    • Managed Care: The Convergence of Industrialization and Totalitarianism by Karen Shore, Ph.D. As Published in Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, the newsletter of Division 39 (The Division of Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association in the Fall of 1995.

    • Managed Mental-Health Plans Found to Rely on Arbitrary Benefit Limits December 10, 1999 Reuters  

    • A Typical HMO Verdict:  Do it our way or die by Robert Weinmann.   As published in the San Francisco Examiner, August 2, 1998

    • Unmanaging My Health Care by Al Martinez: As published in the LA Times, Sunday, October 10, 1999

    • Playing the HMO Game - Time Magazine - July 13, 1998 Vol. 152 No. 2  

    • When patients are seen as unprofitable: by Robert Weinmann, M.D. As published in the San Francisco Examiner March 17,1998

• Online Publications

  • From INDOC - The Daily Breeze

    • Health Care Lessons Learned Again:  Do you wonder why healthcare does not work quite right any more?  by Thomas W. LaGrelius, M.D.

    • Doctors bowing to HMOs ruin care  by Dr. Thomas W. LaGrelius

• Online pointers to print

  • Death by HMO: The Jennifer Gigliello Story 

  • Immortality News - A Humorous Satire of HMOs in book form  NEW 02/24/00 

  • Making a Killing - HMOs and the Threat to Your Health   

  • Outsmarting Managed Care : A Doctor Shares His Insiders Secrets to Getting the Health Care You Want  by Bruce Barron, M.D.

  • Prescription for Terror  by Sandra Levy Ceren 

  • Terminal Consent by Michael Freeny

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• Professional Interest - Health Care

  • In General

    • Don't Let Them Take Your Mind and Spirit: On Being Called a "Provider"
      A speech delivered by Dr. Karen Shore upon acceptance of the "1997 Distinguished Psychologist of the Year" Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of Independent Practice.

    • The Doctor-patient Relationship! a page of links prepared by Gary Mirkin, M.D. 

    • Physicians' unions must be able to strike It may be the best way to protect patient's care By Charles D. Goodman MD.

    • Psychotherapists are Succeeding Outside of Managed Care   NEW 02/21/00

  • Counseling

  • Innovative Medicine

    • FAIM - The foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine

  • Medicine

    • Dissatisfied Physicians

    • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Under Managed Care by: Susan L. Quan

    • Physicians' unions must be able to strike It may be the best way to protect patient's care By Charles D. Goodman MD.

• Nursing

  • Be more efficient at the expense of patient care    

  • Cost Cutting Changes How Nurses Operate by Julie Appleby, USA Today

  • The Florence Project, Inc. - The Heartbeat of Healthcare Advocacy!

  • Nursing by Numbers  

  • Nursing's Agenda for Health Care Reform  

  • Support Whistleblower Rights for Nurses 

  • Address at the Nurses' March on Washington Capitol Building May 10, 1996 by Karen Shore, Ph.D.

• Pharmacy

• Psychiatry

  • Montana Psychiatrist Honored For Crusade Against Magellan  

  • The Value of Behavioral Health Benefits Declines in Past Year, Study Finds

  • Where is Psychiatry headed in 1999? An opinion from Robert Bransfield MD

• Psychiatric Nursing

• Psychology

  • A Death Knell for Clinical Psychologists as Psychotherapists by Karen Shore, Ph.D.

  • Psychologists for Patients' Rights

  • The Value of Behavioral Health Benefits Declines in Past Year, Study Finds 

• Social Work

  • The Value of Behavioral Health Benefits Declines in Past Year, Study Finds 

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• Professional interest - Insurance

  • Consumer Insurance Advocate, inc.

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• Professional interest - Legal Issues

  • ERISA - Where if an HMO denies you coverage and you get really sick, or maybe even die as a direct result of that denial, you can not sue then for anything.

  • Grijalva -  Where the government is being sued because a Medicare HMO failed to deliver adequate services

  • HARP -  The Healthcare Accountability Responsibility Project - Harvey S. Frey, MD, JD webmaster

  • HMO Vicarious Liability -  Petrovic v. Share Health Plan - The Illinois Supreme Court

  • The Managed Care Liability Project

  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Under Managed Care by: Susan L. Quan

  • David Trueman's HMO Page

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• Professional Interest - Health Law

  • BenefitsLink(tm) - The Employee Benefits Web Site

  • Center for Health Law Studies, St. Louis

  • ERISA in the U.S. Code (BenefitsLink)

  • Health Hippo Lots of good federal sites and news articles too.

  • Healthcare Intelligence Network  The Internet's Largest Collection of Health and Hospital Case Law

  • Health Care Liability Alliance (HCLA)

  • Health Law Perspectives from Michaels, Wishner & Bonner   

  • The Health Law Resource, Wm. Manning

  • Health Law Trends, Arent-Fox

  • Malpractice law summary, by State

  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Under Managed Care by: Susan L. Quan

  • National Health Law Program

  • National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Prof. Edward Richard's Health Law Tutorial

  • Why Class Actions Against HMOs are in the Consumer's Best Interest By: D. Brian Hufford, Esq.

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• Managed Care Reports

  • 2001 HEALTH ODYSSEY The Coming Rebirth Of Managed Care  

  • 40 Largest MSAs & Their Managed Care Enrollment   

  • AIS Healthcare Business and Government Articles  

  • The Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Implications and Strategies for Hospitals 

  • California HMO Enrollment by Health Plan 98   

  • Commercial Hospital Fund Utilization

  • Declining Cancer Incidence and Death Rates  

  • E-Seminar: The Future of Managed Care by Clive Riddle  

  • E-Seminar: Integrated Patient Management Programs by Aida Leroy, Pharm-D  

  • Evaluation of State Contracts - Mental Health  

  • Formulary Frenzy; How to Make it Manageable  

  • HCFA: PSO Definitions and Requirements 4/14/98 FR Notice

  • HMO Impact on Consumer Satisfaction: National Research Corporation

  • Los Angeles Metropolitan Statistical Area - 2nd Quarter 1999

  • Managed Care Book of World Records 

  • MCOL Purchasing Pool Premium Competition Study 

  • Most Common Procedures - Physician Group Practices

  • MCOL Satisfaction and Premium Relationship Study 

  • Prudential HMO Data Report Card

  • Pacificare Income Statement and Operating Statistics 97-98

  • Reasons for Enrolling in Medicare Risk Plans 

  • Sachs HMO Honor Roll 1998

  • Sample IPA Individual Provider Application

  • Summary of HMO Penetration by State

  • Top 10 Diagnosis Based on Office Visits - Why Patients Visit Doctors - Scott Levin 4/21/99

  • HCIA: Top 100 Hospitals - PTCA 1999 

  • Top 100 Hospitals for 1997

  • Utilization Trends - Medical Group Practices

  • West Coast HMOs Cost Less / Have Better Quality 

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• Medicare

  • Elderly HMO patients are twice as likely to have health decline as fee-for-service patients from JAMA

  • HCFA - Questions and Answers about Medicare

  • Health Care Diary 2000 by Chuck Phillips, M.D.

  • Health Care Financing Administration's Medicare Compare Database 

  • Many Consumers Severly Overcharged for Medigap Policies - May 1999  

  • Medicare 1998 Premiums by State by Plan  

  • Medicare HMO Enrollment by State 1998  

  • Medicare HMO Enrollment, 1985 - 1996  

  • Medicare HMOs To Announce Cutbacks

  • Medicare HMO Listing by State   

  • Medicare and Managed Care & Persons with Disabilities - Study  

  • National Consumer Groups Find Medicare HMO Marketing Abuses 

  • Ten Things Your Medicare HMO Won't Tell You  

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• Personal Stories about Managed Care

  • Dad Dies Due to HMO Delays

  • Death by HMO: The Jennifer Gigliello Story 

  • JudyDoc - The Story of Judy Morris, M.D. and her amazing fight against  her insurer.

  • Inside Kaiser's ER - An Expose by Chuck Phillips, M.D.  

  • Making a Killing - HMOs and the Threat to Your Health Case histories of those who have lost their health or their lives because an HMO denied or delayed vital treatments, tests or surgery  

  • Managed Care Horror Happens to Real People by Karen Shore, Ph.D. 

  • Montana Psychiatrist Honored For Crusade Against Magellan  

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• Web site of Health and Other Insurers

  • Aetna US Healthcare 

  • Blue Cares - 

  • Blue Cross / Blue Shield - Regional hyperlinks

  • Capitation - What is it ?   

  • Columbia/HCA Healthcare  

  • Hospital Web

  • Magellan Health Services

  • Oxford Health Systems

  • PharmWeb

  • Property and Casualty Dot Com

  • Prudential Healthcare

  • Tenet HealthSystems

  • Tricare

  • United Behavioral Health

  • Value Options

  • VHA

  • Yaki Technologies Hospital Search  

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• Miscellaneous Links

  • 11 Unethical Managed Care Practices that Every Consumer Should Know About  (With emphasis on mental health care) By Ivan Miller, Ph.D.

  • 480,000 Californians denied Health by HMOs in 1996, from Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley

  • 87% of doctors report HMO care denials from Kaiser Family Foundation Study

  • Aetna Video Shows ERISA Patients Mistreated  

  • Be more efficient at the expense of patient care     

  • Capitation - What is it ? 

  • A Collection of Special Search Engines

  • Comments by Robert Weinmann, President of UAPD,  in Washington D.C. 11/2/98

  • Compromising your Drug of Choice How HMOs are dictating your next prescription by Mark Green, NYC Public Advocate.

  • Confessions of an HMO Medical Reviewer  NEW 01/03/00 

  • Connecticut Attorney General Sues HMO Over Drug Policies  

  • Clinical Freedom For Patient's and Physicians  by John H. Frenster, M.D.

  • CQC's ERISA Case of the Day

  • A Death Knell for Clinical Psychologists as Psychotherapists by Karen Shore, Ph.D.

  • Desperate Remedies? Pill-Splitting to Shave Pharmacy Costs by Robert McCarthy, PhD  [Drug Benefit Trends 11(12):19, 21, 1999. © 1999 Cliggott Publishing Co., Division of SCP/Cliggott Communications, Inc.]  NEW 03/16/00

  • Dr. Lackner Quits Practice 

  • End Secret Treatment Guidelines! by Ivan Miller, Ph.D.

  • Elderly HMO patients are twice as likely to have health decline as fee-for-service patients from JAMA.

  • The Evolution of the Managed Care "Medical Director” By Charles Phillips, M.D.  NEW 2/01/00

  • For-Profit HMOs are worse than Non-Profits , from JAMA

  • Rep. Ganske's letter to Congress.

  • Health Care on the Critical List Canada's Public System Is Overwhelmed, and Under Attack 

  • Health Care Diary 2000 by Chuck Phillips, M.D. 

  • The Health Plan Directory - health and medical plans across the United States

  • Health Plan Post Office  find e-addresses and send e-mail to listed health plans  

  • The Hippocratic Oath

  • HMO Executive Salaries

  • HMO Negligence is Hard to Fight by Jane Bryant Quinn.

  • HMO patients are twice as likely to die in-hospital from an acute myocardial infarct as fee-for-service patients American Heart Assoc. Meeting, Nov. 1997

  • HMOs urge 'pill chopping'   from CNN NEW 03/23/00

  • Inside Kaiser's ER - An Expose by Chuck Phillips, M.D.  

  • Kaiser and Arbitration in California by Arlen Cohen, MD/JD  NEW 03/03/00

  • Managed Mental-Health Plans Found to Rely on Arbitrary Benefit Limits December 10, 1999 Reuters  

  • Magellan, Magellan, Wherefore Art Thou Magellan? (A Wry Commentary)  by Steven Shearer, Ph.D.  

  • Managed Care Ethics by Linda Peeno M.D.

  • Medical Burnout  by Ben Dover, M.D.  

  • Needy Meds   Assisting people who can't afford to buy drugs    

  • Nevada Assembly HHS Committee testimony on HMOs

  • One in 4 primary care MDs worry about care of sickest patients  

  • Op Ed article on ERISA by Ron Hoffman and Mark Hiepler

  • Parity 2000 - Fairness in providing equal insurance benefits and treatment for mental health patients

  • Psychologists Say Insurance and Managed Care Companies Have 280 Million Reasons to Deny Care

  • Psychology Information Online 

  • Psychotherapists are Succeeding Outside of Managed Care   NEW 02/21/00

  • Simple Care - Be Part of the Solution

  • Talk about Kaiser's Chutzpah (Nerve) by Charles Phillips, M.D.  NEW 01/24/00

  • The Surgeon General Addresses Mental Health 

  • United Healthcare Discriminates Against Mental Health by Leonard Holmes, Ph.D.  

  • U.S. Media Favor Health Reform - For Canada  NEW 02/20/00

  • U.S. Senate Horror Story site 

  • Yahoo! Life and health Insurance Glossary

  • Yahoo! Health Plan Needs Analyzer

  • Yahoo! Health Insurance FAQ

  • Your Money & Your Life: America's Managed Care Revolution from PBS    

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• Search Sites

  • Health A to Z

  • healthINFOtech

  • HealthSCOUT  

  • Yahoo Health

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• Fun Stuff - HMO Humor, etc.

  • Aunt Fanny Managed Care

  • Dialing For Doctors (unfortunately too true)   

  • Hey, Moe

  • HMO Depot

  • Magellan, Magellan, Wherefore Art Thou Magellan? (A Wry Commentary)  by Steven Shearer, Ph.D  

  • Managed Caring - For all Your Friendship Needs

  • Managed Music Dot Com - Dedicated To Equal Access To Music For All Americans 

    • Click here to Purchase Dr. Sam's CD - RHCD gets a donation 

  • MC MD  Adventures in Managed Care 

  • Surgery a la HMO - (Takes a while to open) 

  • Who's Afraid?

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Many thanks go* Harvey Frey, M.D., Ph.D., J.D.  Health Administration Responsibility Project for help with many of the links on this page