| Other author/creator | Smith, Hedrick. |
| Other author/creator | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) |
| Other author/creator | Films Media Group. |
| Other author/creator | Hedrick Smith Productions. |
| Variant title |
Can good care survive the market? |
| Series |
Critical Condition with Hedrick Smith: How Good Is Your Health Care?
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| Contents |
AIDS and Kaiser Permanente (3:45) -- Commitment to AIDS Community (3:24) -- Kaiser's Social Mission (3:28) -- Colorectal Screening Exam (5:13) -- Preventive Health Care (4:24) -- Diabetes: Cost of Care (5:14) -- What Insurance Cannot Cover (4:53) -- New Market Strategies (4:55) -- Quality Health Care (4:56) -- Can Quality Health Care Survive? (2:02) |
| Abstract |
America's managed care system was designed to provide coordinated preventive and long-term healthcare better than individual doctors could in yesterday's fragmented fee-for-service system. Have HMOs lived up to that promise? In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith investigates Kaiser Permanente-the largest nonprofit HMO in the U.S.-and its social mission of lifetime care. Although it has pioneered improvements such as mass screening for colon cancer and special team care for patients with diabetes and HIV, Kaiser Permanente has also drawn fire for unpopular cost-cutting measures and for allegedly neglecting needy communities. |
| General note | Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005. |
| General note | Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware. |
| Access restriction | Access requires authentication through Films on Demand. |
| Interest grade level |
11 & up. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Technical details | System requirements: FOD playback platform. |
| Source of description | Title from distributor's description. |
| Issued in other form | Originally produced: Hedrick Smith Productions, 2000 9781421382500 |
| Genre/form | Educational films. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Videorecording. |
| Publisher number | 10939s Films Media Group |
| Publisher number | 10941 Films Media Group |
