Consumer Group Calls for Action Against California HMO’s

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Consumers for Quality Care, a consumer health-insurance rights advocacy group, during hearings in Los Angeles, on March 9, 1999 called upon the California Department of Corporations to halt its approval of the $1 billion Aetna-Prudential merger. The health care watchdog group claimed that the merger would result in an industry leviathan that will cover one out of 10 Americans and that, if allowed to proceed, the move will downsize patient care to unreasonable levels, unduly leverage physicians, undermine competition, and cause the potential for unfair business . . .