But many, Dr. Swensen said, suffered needless operations and other medical procedures for something that may have been innocuous.
But according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), an independent accreditation agency, the average HMO does better than traditional fee-for-service medicine on several counts.Take, for example, the benefits of reducing needless operations.
But it definitely drags many others into the system needlessly — into needless appointments, needless tests, needless drugs and needless operations (not to mention all the accompanying needless insurance forms).
As the obstetrician Charles West remarked in 1858, "the supposed triumphs of surgery in cutting short the disease... were, for the most part, purely imaginary; and the trophies once displayed in our museums are now generally put out of sight, as the mementoes of a pathological blunder and a needless operation".
Disability Advocates brought the lawsuit in 2003 after a series of articles in The New York Times described a system in which residents were poorly monitored and barely cared for, left to swelter in the summer and sometimes subjected to needless medical treatment and operations for Medicaid reimbursement.
The lawsuit started after a series of articles in The New York Times described a system in which residents of the group homes were neglected, left to swelter in the summer and sometimes subjected to needless medical treatment and operations for Medicaid reimbursement.
The lawsuit was filed in 2003 by Disability Advocates, a nonprofit legal services group, after a series of articles in The New York Times that described a system in which residents were poorly monitored and barely cared for, left to swelter in the summer and sometimes subjected to needless medical treatment and operations for Medicaid reimbursement.
Nick Balice, said that "while civilian casualties of war are a tragedy, coalition forces have taken extreme care in Operation Iraqi Freedom to limit needless loss of human life and collateral damage".
Needless to say, this is no street-corner operation with bars on the windows and three balls hanging over the door.
Please consider this again: regulating the process implies the belief that some kinds of biotech operations must be considered suspicious in advance – and, needless to say, the dubious products, as ill-defined as they must be, are the so-called "genetically engineered organisms".
Hamas has been offered a handful of ceasefires; in fact, Hamas was offered an array of opportunities to de-escalate before the operation began, to prevent the massive, horrific and needless loss of life.
