Prepaid group practice as a concept for providing health care is now over 25 years old in the nation and in New York City. It has overcome initial opposition by the medical profession and has been adopted by government as a healthy strategy under the acronym HMO or "Health Maintenance Organization". The author asserts that on two major…

The New York City Department of Health (CDOH) traditionally has provided health care to the approximately one million students in New York City's public schools, but budget cuts have reduced its services substantially. Both the New York State Department of Health (SDOH) and New York City Board of Education (BOE) have been critical of CDOH's…