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... Tile fixture viability and role of traditional fee-for-service health insurance, the promise and areas of concern for the relation between managed care and vulnerable populations, and the capacity and limitations of states as leaders in health care reform will be critical components of any strategy aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our nation's health care system
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... Dr. Chapman underscores the importance of not necessarily equating insurance coverage with access to health care, since for many people, nonfinancial barriers are major impeclin~ents to the availability of appropriate and timely care.
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... Dr. Chapman contends tint the greater availability of primary care and the management of patients on a consistent, regular basis will determine the ultimate success or failure of health care refound Looking beyond the traclitional fee-for-service indemnity system, Surgeon Rubenstein reports on the experiences of one of the country's lea(ling HMOs, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, and looks specifically at the issue of benefits design.
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... vulnerable populations in the context of managed care and agrees with Mr. Snow that most of the barriers to care for these populations have more to do with non~nedical issues that with health care.
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... The hope of the Rosenthal family and the Institute of Medicine is that the participants in these lecture programs and those who read this volume whether or not they agree with the speakers' opinions will be assisted to think in a snore info~ec] way about the possbilities ant} consequences of fixture actions to improve the effectiveness, organization, and financing of our health care system.
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