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Article: Newspapers foretell health care's future. (Health Care Trends).
- Article from:
- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
- Author:
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* Health Care Trends
* Consumers Push For Sensible Health Care System
* Physicians Rebel Against PPMCs and HMOs
* The Profit Imperative
* Preoccupation with Choice and Cost
This article is based on a two-month snapshot (November 1998 to January 1999) of newspaper articles addressing various health care issues. Newspaper contents reflect the changing market share of competing societal concerns. Health care issues, particularly cost and choice, now preoccupy the American people. Health care trends percolate bottom-up through the pages of newspapers, not top-down from Washington, D. C, policymakers, or health care executives. By ...