Seton's Secrets

Seton HMO comes under fire for failing to report data that could be helpful to consumers.

"...Council (THCIC), an agency that measures the performance of HMOs and hospitals on behalf of consumers, employers, and health-care..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

"...consumers to protest coverage and medical decisions – insulates HMOs from state laws that provide patients with other legal..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Seton Says Sorry

"...employers, and health-care professionals, THCIC annually compiles info on HMOs and hospitals into consumer's guides. Seton spokeswoman Gayle Granberry..."

Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Paying Doctor

Federal Insurance Program Could Aid Texas' Youth

"...providers. But looser regulations equal more opportunity for large HMOs to control health care, and that's why CHIP could..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Support Health-Care Legislation

"...the release of Sicko, has largely been marginalized by HMOs and their influence over the media. The buzz came..."

July 24, 2007 Postmarks

Naked City

The court also upholds laws requiring you to give your name to police

"...Texans do not have the right to sue their HMOs over coverage denials under state law, and instead must..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Further, the paragraph states, the bill would have prohibited HMOs from requiring binding arbitration prior to a dispute arising,..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

The media fails to report Alan Greenspan's pro-corporate zealotry; greedy doctors make for bad medicine; and subliminal advertising makes its way into books.

"...is shut out, but so what? Send them to HMOs and the ER with all those other nobodies and..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Father's Day Massacre

A brief analysis of a number of Gov. Perry's vetoes

"...veto pissed off doctors, now at the mercy of HMOs for timely reimbursements under multiple and confusing rules. The..."

June 29, 2001 News Column by Michael King

The Hospital

"...and the institution for which he works. Even before HMOs and full computerization, hospitals provided ample material for wild..."

July 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Have Nots

One Family's Plight

"...primary care and Goggio team member Kaye Music says HMOs have trouble finding providers in rural areas and might..."

March 12, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Patch Adams

"...the ill. (I'd like to see him billing the HMOs for such treatments.) And Patch is unwilling to wait..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Imprudent Choices?

"...Newsweek reporter Ellyn Spragins writes, because managed-care groups like HMOs "didn't take off until the 1980s, when employers began..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature

Point Austin: Getting Wello

Join the fight for universal health care

"...Erlichman is reassuring his boss that Kaiser Permanente and HMOs are the way to go, because "the less health..."

July 6, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM

This is the number of deaths a year caused by how we do (or don't do) health care. A decade of that, and it's as though terrorists nuked Chicago.

"...test? The Time report quotes Elizabeth Bancroft, an epidemiologist: "HMOs aren't going to be paying you to do a..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

U.S. Out of Touch

"...the phone and other utility companies and especially the HMOs were expensive and incompetent, and public transport was a..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...restricting their rights to hold physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, HMOs, and drug and medical-device manufacturers accountable for injuries or..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column

Against Tort Reform

"...restricting their rights to hold physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, HMOs, and drug and medical-device manufacturers accountable for injuries or..."

Sept. 7, 2004 Postmarks

The Operation Was Successful ...

The jury's still out on "tort reform" – but the courthouse door is closed

"...bankrolled the campaign – insurance companies, large hospitals, and HMOs."..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...– Texas' 1997 patient protection law allowing lawsuits against HMOs (which became law without his signature) – was rendered..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hightower Report

A rich guy shows no respect for the dead; a Bush appointee-turned-lobbyist shows no respect for ethics

"...a way that will add profits to private hospitals, HMOs, and the drug giants...."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Are Texas doctors doing harm to truth and justice?

"...state holiday. Perry has been touring state hospitals and HMOs promoting Proposition 12 as though his campaign account depends..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Page Two

Proposition 12 indicates the problems with Texas constitutional amendment process as well as the current administration's and legislative majority's cynical agenda.

"...Currently, they all feel an undercurrent of overwhelming despair. HMOs on the one hand and threats of lawsuits accompanied..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Victims: Deep-Six Proposition 12

"...out lawsuits against doctors and "health care providers" (read HMOs). But lawmakers have left the proposition's more disturbing provisions..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Ralph Nader's Open Letter to the Legislature

"...and nursing home residents in favor of insurance companies, HMOs, chemical interests, and manufacturers. They take away every Texan's..."

June 20, 2003 News Column

On the Lege, One Last Time

"...for a study to analyze the effects of allowing HMOs into the Valley (four of the poorest Valley counties..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

Always count on the Texas Legislature to remember: The gold rules

"...the truly helpless: insurance companies, housing manufacturers, pharmaceutical giants, HMOs, hospital and nursing home chains, and other destitute corporate..."

May 9, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls

"...noneconomic damage caps are a bad idea and that HMOs, insurance companies, and hospitals should be held more, not..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Playing Defense

Progressives prepare to circle the wagons at the Lege

"...-- and not the bottom line of insurance companies, HMOs, or nursing homes -- it's not a happy prospect...."

Nov. 29, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

Ideology, not need, shapes the energies of the incoming Legislature.

"...the courts, as a reward for the insurance companies, HMOs, housing manufacturers, and other corporate patrons who put up..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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