MEDICAL CARE: THE SOUL OF AN HMO

MANAGED CARE IS CERTAINLY BRINGING DOWN AMERICA'S MEDICAL COSTS, BUT IT IS ALSO RAISING THE QUESTION OF WHETHER PATIENTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH SEVERE ILLNESSES, CAN STILL TRUST THEIR DOCTORS

By Erik Larson/Los Angeles Monday, Jan. 22, 1996
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It also declared that Health Net's interference in the doctor-patient relationship fit the legal definition of "extreme and outrageous behavior exceeding all bounds usually tolerated in a civilized society."

Or maybe it's just medicine on the far side of the paradigm shift. Says Dr. Ho: "I'm sorry the panel didn't see that Health Net was doing what was best for the patient, which was to deny the treatment as investigational, and which in the end was proven the right decision."

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