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On the recordFebruary 25, 1998
when we look at health care delivery and we look at what has happened in health care all over the place, there have been changes and changes and changes. We see in America right now thousands of individuals who are physicians who decided to go to medical school, learned their profession, because they wanted to be engaged in the practice of medicine. They wanted to work out with patients treatment plans and treatment patterns. They wanted to make use of the skills which they had acquired to provide the best possible care for their patients and their clients. Now we reach a point where many of these very same physicians, individuals who have spent years and years and years of study and training, are actually being told how they must practice. They are being told what it is they have to prescribe for certain illnesses, what it is that they have to do for certain patients, how long they can keep their patients in the hospital, what they have to do with them if they have to go home.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the challenges faced by physicians under managed care organizations.

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