Proposals urging free choice of medical providers stir debate
Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor, Salt Lake Tribune, February 8, 2008
A Utah senator is pushing bills that he claims would help lower the cost of healthcare and make it easier to choose a physician.
The sponsor of the bills, Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, says the bills would help Utahans "swing out" of their HMOs or PPOs and see the doctors they want. Another bill would not allow hospitals with more than a quarter of the licensed beds in a county to give discounts to insurance companies in return for restricting where customers can seek care.
"We have created a healthcare system in this country where agency has been robbed of people," Buttars said. And "they lose ownership in that process."
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