The Coalition Report is our bimonthly newsletter published  for our members and for the public education of consumers, professionals, and government officials.

Our newsletter provides updates on the movement to expose managed care abuses on legal, legislative, and media fronts. You will read riveting expositions, "Calls to Action," and unprecedented research detailing the economic and ethical failures of managed care. Used as a resource for professionals and patients, our newsletter also provides strategies on how one can protect oneself and fight back.

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Some Past Articles

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From The Editor - The National Coalition Agenda for 2001

New for 2001 - Deborah Peel MD on What's up!

Newspaper Postings From Around the Country on Managed Care and Privacy

Study Documents Under Treatment of Mental Health Needs

Resources - Information and Tools to Fight for Quality Mental Health

President's Report - Fighting to Eliminate the External Management of Care: What Does Character Have to Do With It?  by Karen Shore, Ph.D.

AMA Opposes Mental Health Carveouts by Barry Herman, MD

How Managed Care Discriminates Against Women  by Judith Antrobus, PhD

Protecting Privacy with the Absence of Records by Ivan Miller, PhD

Book Review Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care effectiveness and Economics in the 21st Century.  Edited by Harriette Kaley, Morris N. Eagle, and David L. Wolitzky.  Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1999

The Psychological Imbroglio of Managed Care: How the evolution of the struggle transforms the clinician by Joyce M. Cartor, Ph.D. Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society

The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Ballot Question by Paul K. Ling, Ph.D.

Some Good Managed Care News by David L. Trueman, Esq., PhD

This Ain’t No Disco by Susan Frager, LCSW

Universal Health Care 2000 Campaign Update by Patricia Dowds, Ph.D. and David G. Byrom, Ph.D.

President's Report: Rescue Health Care Day and Beyond by Karen Shore, Ph.D.

The Karen and Hillary Show, A report on a Today Show "town Meeting" and the interactions between the First Lady and Karen Shore, Ph.D., Current President of the National Coalition by Karen Shore, PhD

Encourage Employers to Consider Medical Cost Offset by David Nevin, Ph.D.

U2K and Us by Patricia Dowds, PhD

A Story by Susan Tolbert, MD

First Session - The Consultation By Sheri Scott, Consumer Advocate

Gephardt and Kennedy in Texas for a Reception at the home of NCMHPC President-elect by Deborah Peel, MD

Obituaries--Dying of Mental Illness by Deborah Peel, MD

A Parent's Search for Mental Health Care, by Jacqueline Wallen, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.-C

Patient information guide: Confidentiality and your medical care, by Edward Sodaro, M.D. and Jennifer Ball, C.S.W.

Downstream Risk Management: Implications, by James T. Wrich, Director, J. Wrich & Assoc.

Previous Articles

Neglected Adolescent Mental Illness: Managed Care At Its Worst by Edward R. Sodaro, M.D. and Jennifer Ball, C.S.W.

Potential Monopsony Lawsuit

Consumer Protection Plan


The Best Articles and the articles marked "Don't Miss" on the homepage all appeared first in the Coalition Report!

The "Don't Miss" articles are:

Eleven Unethical Managed Care Practices

On Being Called a "Provider", and

The Time Has Come to Choose the Replacement for Managed Health Care


The newsletter is issued on the 15th of the following months: January, March, May, July, September, and November. The deadline for each issue is 30 days prior to each issue date.

For submissions, for volunteering to report and work with the newsletter editors, and for letters to the editor, please contact:

Editor, The Coalition Report
William A. MacGillivray, Ph.D.
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