The chronically ill : pain, profit, and managed care
- Date
2000
- Summary
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Currently, three-quarters of all U.S. healthcare dollars are spent on 100 million people with chronic illnesses and conditions. Can a cost-conscious healthcare system continue to help them? Hedrick Smith questions whether the chronically ill will be able to obtain the high-quality, long-term care they need in the years to come. Special reports focus on cases of patients with cancer, victims of stroke and heart disease, and children with congenital illnesses, comparing their treatment by commercial HMOs with the diagnoses and recommendations of independent experts.
- Contributors
Smith, Hedrick; Allan, Ariadne; Murdock, David; Shaffer, Marc; Creed, Bill
- Publishers
Hedrick Smith Productions; South Carolina Educational Television Network; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
- Genre
Documentary television programs
- Subjects
Economics, Business, Commerce, Labor; Health, Family Studies; Economics, Business, Commerce, Labor; Chronically ill -- Care -- United States; Long-term care of the sick -- United States; Home care services -- United States; Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States
- Locations
North America; United States; New Jersey
- Collection
Films@UM
- Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
47 minutes; color
- Notes
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
Creation/Production Credits
Correspondent, Hedrick Smith. Producers, Ariadne Allan, David Murdock, Marc Shaffer ; editors, Bill Creed ... [et al.] ; writers, Hedrick Smith ... [et al.].
- Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-089722; Fedora 2 PID: umd:10727; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/3202; Catalog Key: alephsys004129447; OCLC: ocm53029486
Access Restrictions
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