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A transitional redistribution of power between consumers, physicians, and insurance companies was therefore proposed. The HIA attempted to provide for a balance of power between vested interests by prohibiting insurance companies from functioning like HMOs or polyclinics, or from acting as health services providers. This ensured that the insurance companies acted as administrative intermediaries, and not as medical decision-makers, as is often the case in the United States.