Another inconsistency is that for a sample city, i.e. Chicago, most of the report cards studied included only a fraction of the plans available to consumers in that market. Usually the plans that were omitted were the smaller plans in terms of total enrollment. Only 13 percent of Medicare patients are enrolled in an HMO, and it's likely that a push to enroll this population in managed care will continue in the coming years. We urge that future report cards by employers, media or health care agencies become more standardized, include a wider set of health plans, and use the information most important to consumers. In the meantime, he said report card users may want to consult several ratings to understand the wide range of information and evaluations, and use the report cards as a complement, rather than a substitute, for information from friends, colleagues and physicians.
Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe and among the most distant objects known.
They are believed to contain the black-hole seeds from which all galaxies were formed. Because radiation from quasars takes so long to reach the Earth, scientists see distant quasars as they were billions of years ago and use them to study the early history of the universe. Temperatures climbed into the 80s, prompting people to get their shorts out of storage. Above, Rachel Kosoff, a freshman biology student, chats with her friend Allison Mumper, a freshman biochemistry student, in the East Halls quad on the University Park campus. Tara Ausherman, a sophomore in the College of Health and Human Development, right, didn't let the weather keep her from studying.