Glendening in Pocket of HMOs. |
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We Get Sick, He Gets Money Time and again, Glendening has come through for the HMOs, while sending Maryland consumers overboard. The HMO patients’ bill of rights was defeated. Two years ago, the Governor vetoed legislation that would have required HMOs to pay for emergency room visits. Maryland still does not require HMOs to pay for at least two days in the hospital for a mastectomy. Is there anyway to account for the how the HMOs have trained the Governor to do their bidding? Well, to borrow a phrase from the Watergate era, ‘follow the money.’ According to a January 18, 1998 article in the Washington Post entitled, "Health Care Lobbying Scrutinized," Glendening has raised tens of thousands of dollars "from companies, political committees or individuals affiliated with health care." One of those companies was Merit Behavioral Care, which flew the governor to New York on their company jet for a fundraiser - at the same time the company was bidding on very lucrative state health contracts. The ethical violation - not to mention betrayal of the public trust - involved in this deal should have been obvious. But the pattern persists with political contributions, favoritism, lack of standards, rationing of services, and most of all, fear about the deteriorating quality of health care in Maryland. We can do better. Eileen Rehrmann will stand with the people of Maryland. She wants a bill of rights for consumers. She wants HMOs to be subject to the same disciplinary standards as doctors. She wants doctors to be able to start their own HMOs. She wants people to be able to appeal arbitrary decisions to deny coverage. Eileen Rehrmann is committed to making "care" the most important word in managed care - and to turning Maryland into a national model of quality health care.
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