title: Food for thought. Dueling gorillas.
abstract: HMOs, the "new darlings" of big business healthcare, are the latest to feel the sting of government's cost cutting schemes. Mr. Hage writes. But, unlike not-for-profit hospitals, HMOs have the knowledge and the prerogative to simply walk off the Medicare tightrope and opt out of the game.
mesh_terms: D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States