Which of the following is a consequence of the strategies that HMOs use to ensure profits and keep shareholders satisfied?

A) increasing health care coverage
B) trying to minimize the cost of treating sick people they can't avoid covering
C) maintaining fixed health care coverage
D) offering complete coverage for children and people with disabilities
E) all of these choices

HMOs often try to minimize the cost of treating sick people they can't avoid covering as a way to ensure profits and keep shareholders satisfied. This can lead to consequences such as denying coverage or limiting access to necessary treatments and procedures. The other choices, increasing health care coverage, maintaining fixed health care coverage, and offering complete coverage for children and people with disabilities, are not necessarily consequences of HMOs' profit-seeking strategies.