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Managed Care Brings about Health Reforms despite Congress' Inaction.(Originated from Richmond Times-dispatch, Va.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 1996 by Stanley, Bonnie Newman
Apr. 15--Health-care reform legislation no longer dominates Capitol Hill, but consumers, insurers and health-care workers continue to feel its impact.
"It's like health-care reform went on without Congress," said Linda Radey, a Washington economist who monitors health care.
In the Richmond area, as elsewhere, mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and increased managed care have replaced politicians' examination of the industry.
The changes have wrought layoffs and the consolidation or elimination of some longstanding units at some area hospitals.
For example, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.'s Henrico Doctors' Hospital laid off about 65 workers in a reorganization earlier this year. Although workers at all levels were affected, most of those...
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