CBS Evening News - 1999-11-08
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[0:02] Ali Mciel, Barah and Judge Judy on
[0:05] Entertainment Tonight
[0:08] turning the tide of managed healthc
[0:10] care. A big HMO backs down and says
[0:13] doctors, not managers, now will decide
[0:16] on treatment. Researchers open a new
[0:19] line of attack against heart disease,
[0:21] the nation's number one killer. and
[0:24] Microsoft still alive and clicking the
[0:27] Monday after the judges Monopoly case
[0:30] findings.
[0:33] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:37] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:40] headquarters in New York.
[0:42] >> Good evening. It could be the first wave
[0:45] of a title shift in managed health care
[0:48] policies affecting millions of Americans
[0:50] and HMOs. The country's second biggest
[0:53] HMO confirmed today that it will shift
[0:56] the responsibility from managers to
[0:59] doctors in decisions about patient care
[1:02] and treatment. This follows months of
[1:04] big money lobbying by HMOs and their
[1:06] allies in Congress against giving
[1:09] patients and doctors more say over HMO
[1:12] decisions and even the right to sue.
[1:14] CBS's Jim Axelrod begins our coverage of
[1:17] this potentially farreaching change.
[1:21] >> It's long been complaint number one for
[1:23] the 80 million people enrolled in HMOs
[1:26] that an insurance company employee could
[1:29] overrule a position. Now, United Health
[1:31] Group, the nation's second largest
[1:33] health insurer, is giving doctors the
[1:36] final say on treatment.
[1:37] >> It's an evolutionary leap for United
[1:39] Healthcare, but we definitely believe
[1:41] it's a revolution for the industry.
[1:43] >> This change is about economics as much
[1:46] as medicine. It cost United Health
[1:48] $und00 million a year to run a review
[1:50] system,