Critical Condition: From the capital to kitchen tables, and from frustration with HMOs to worries about cost, health care is topic A. And the patients are ready to rumble. A special report.(Focus)

Sandi Bergevin has a terrific internist, and she adores the ophthalmologist who has treated her glaucoma for the past 15 years. "It takes a long time to build up the trust," she says. "I feel he's taking care of me and is not going to let anything happen to me." But the 55-year-old hospital worker is not so sure about her HMO. Because its vision plan stipulates only three office visits a year, getting the care she needs usually involves a long series of appeals. And she worries constantly that things could get worse. Not long ago she learned that her employer is planning to switch to a different health plan--one that may not even do business with the doctors she knows and ...

More articles like this:

Loading
We're searching over:
  • 60 million articles
  • 3,500 publications


Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) Register Register