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Hmo's And Seniors

NPR
Published July 23, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

Government figures released today show that nearly one million Medicare recipients now enrolled in HMOs will have to find another source of care next year. As NPR's Julie Rovner reports, HMOs are abandoning Medicare in record numbers, saying the program doesn't pay enough.

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