Glenn Flores

In the following viewpoint, Glenn Flores argues that the advent of managed care has made unions necessary for doctors. Faced with denial-of-care decisions, he contends, doctors working within the managed care system need the power of a union to be effective advocates for their patients. Unionizing, he maintains, will give physicians the collective strength they need to wrest medical decision-making power from managed care providers and allow physicians to do what is best for their patients. Glenn Flores is a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Flores, what aspect of their managed care plan worries 55 percent of patients?
2. In the author’s opinion, what could happen to doctors who do not...