How does the author illuminate the plight of young doctors and their ties to HMOs in the novel, We’ll Meet Again?

The author describes the power that HMOs wield over new young doctors who are deeply in debt, owing as much as $100,000 for their medical education and even more to equip an office and set up a practice. Their financial vulnerability forces them to either work directly for a health maintenance organization or, as the doctor points out, enroll up to 90 percent of their patients in one. With this commitment, they are under the thumb of the HMO, which tells them how many patients to see and sometimes even how long to spend with each patient. Clark's spokesperson points out that some HMOs require doctors to keep a time chart and work a fifty-five-hour week; he suggests nonprofit HMOs run by doctors with their own unions as the answer to such dominance—or even a national health care system. Gus Brandt, executive producer for the NAF Cable Network, calls many HMOs "cockamamie" and asserts that they are going bankrupt right and left and "leaving patients and doctors high and dry." Over and over again in We'll Meet Again new procedures, new medicines, and advanced technological services are arbitrarily denied by the Remington HMO and doctors and patients are left with no recourse except to suffer and die in silence.