Managed Care

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the American health care system is in a prolonged crisis state. The paper provides a brief overview of managed care, its history and development and the transformations that happened over time that have created the present state of health care. The paper portrays the problems of managed care and its unethical, unprofessional and profiteering approach. The paper maintains that the government should intervene and set right an ailing system.

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Thesis
Introduction
Managed Care (The Beginning)
Managed Care Facts
Managed Care Mismanaged
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The United States is undoubtedly one of the best-developed countries in the world with high standards of living. Unfortunately, though, the country is struggling with a health care crisis, which is running deep and threatening to undermine the moral and ethical basis of care provision. Without any universal health care plan, American citizens today are left under the mercy of commercially minded HMO's (health maintenance organizations) whose primary concern is not always delivery of optimal care but rather minimizing costs even at the cost of care denial. The HMO's, which constitute the delivery of managed care, have thus created such rancour among the public and even the doctors."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Tufts management care Institute, " A Brief History of Managed Care", Accessed April 25th 2007, available at, http://www.thci.org/downloads/BriefHist.pdf
• Kaiser Permanente, "In the Desert a New Kind of Health Care Begins", Accessed April 25th 2007, Available at http://newsmedia.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/historykp/entrypage.do
• MCOL Inc, "Managed care Factsheets", Accessed April 26th 2007, Available online at, http://www.mcareol.com/factshts/factplan.htm
• Michael Wynne, "Managed Care : Part 1", Accessed April 25th 2007, Available online at, http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/health/managed_care_1.html#HMO%20Cuture
• PNHP, "Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Bill", Accessed April 25th 2007, Available online at, http://www.pnhp.org/publications/executive_summary_of_the_united_states_national_health_insurance_act_hr676.php

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