Word: ppos
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...forced into HMOs because that's all they would be able to afford," says Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who has proposed a "single-payer" health-care system similar to the one in Canada. White House officials privately explain that pushing more Americans into HMOs and PPOs is crucial to cost control, but that is a point the President prefers not to discuss...
...have a choice of any plan. They just take whatever their employer gives them." Under the Clinton plan, people would be offered several options. The most expensive would be the traditional fee-for-service medicine from an individual doctor. Less expensive would be the so-called preferred-provider organizations (PPOs) that many companies are now using; these require that workers go to specified doctors and hospitals that are part of the plan. An even cheaper option would be the HMOs that provide health care for a fixed price, although often with some waiting and rationing of specialist's services. Given...
Unfortunately, there's not the slightest evidence that the sacrifices entailed by managed competition will pay off in lowered costs. Managed competition has never been tried, anywhere in the world. But managed care, represented by HMOs, PPOs and other ghostly amalgams of insurance plus actual care, has been abundantly tested right here in the U.S. -- and found ineffective at curbing health-care costs...