The Idealistic HMO. Can good care survive the market?
Description
America's managed care system was designed to provide coordinated preventive and long-term healthcare better than individual doctors could in yesterday's fragmented fee-for-service system. Have HMOs lived up to that promise? In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith investigates Kaiser Permanente-the largest nonprofit HMO in the U.S.-and its social mission of lifetime care. Although it has pioneered improvements such as mass screening for colon cancer and special team care for patients with diabetes and HIV, Kaiser Permanente has also drawn fire for unpopular cost-cutting measures and for allegedly neglecting needy communities.
Runtime
47 min
Series
Subjects
- Social medicine (64)
- Political planning (192)
- Public health (338)
- Social policy (88)
- Health planning (100)
- Public policy (Law) (168)
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2000
Database
Films on Demand
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