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Quality Healthcare Coalition Act
Bill would allow doctors to organize, negotiate with HMOs
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Representative Tom Campbell doesn't like to use the word union. Neither do the doctors who support his bill, which would allow private physicians and other health laborers the right to organize. But Campbell's bill, which is now in the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, would allow doctors to come together in groups that resemble unions, even though they technically aren't. In order to do that, the Quality Health-Care Coalition Act would give health professionals an antitrust exemption. That would mean they would win the right to band together to negotiate contracts with HMO's and other managed care companies. Campbell believes many doctors now are treated like employees of an HMO. So why, he wonders, shouldn't they have the right to collectively bargain?
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Volunteer group's core membership is in steady decline.
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