Political Quotes

“that is so important just to open the lines of communication. Again, HMOs have cut the cost of medical care, and they have done a great job. But we can have some guidelines for them to where we can have better quality care and still have the cost controls that are there. Another one of the five concepts is the internal and external appeals process. A lot of the HMOs already provide this. But that would be a reasonably timed appeals process, reasonably timed so you do not have to, again, have medical care delayed is medical care denied, both internal and external appeals process; the opportunities for the employee choice which would provide employees with the opportunity to get health care coverage outside their managed care system for an additional cost. The gentleman and I know that the reason managed care is popular with a lot of our companies who pay for the insurance is that they have also placed cost controls on it. But if an employee in a company says, okay, the company says I can pay X amount of dollars per month, and that will buy you this HMO, a lot of employees, both government employees and private employees, private employers will do that. But there ought to be a requirement that a health care provider would offer a little better plan.”