HMOs and Managed Healthcare: Implications for Nurses. This is a short paper describing how HMOs began, and describing their positive and negative aspects for today's nurses. It discusses the recent political pressures on HMOs to provide members with greater freedom of choice, and suggests some changes that might be made in the health care system of the future. 6 pgs. Bibliography lists 6 sources. Pages: 6 Bibliography: 6 source(s) listed Filename: 7798 HMOs Managed Healthcare.doc Price: 53.70