Food for thought. Dueling gorillas.
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.
D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States