Quick fixes?
Are states' HMO laws solving the problem? When Steve and Michelle Bauman brought home their newborn daughter last May, they had no idea that her death would help prompt New Jersey legislators to action. Yet cases like theirs, most often involving HMOs' policies on coverage for infant delivery, are leading state lawmakers into a whole new--and controversial--area of policymaking.
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