A decade ago, then Kaiser CEO David Lawrence joked that “managed care has gone from being a communist conspiracy to a capitalist conspiracy.” Given the ongoing debate over how to reduce healthcare costs and improve quality, I’m wondering how you would finish the following sentence: Managed care is ….. a communist conspiracy? a capitalist conspiracy? the future of healthcare? doomed?
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Managed Care is the future of health care if we can go back and use some of the techniques and ethical maanagement techniques of early community based health plans.
The words managed care rate up there with “bail out” and was a poor choice by insurance compnaies because A physcisns manage care not insurance compnaies
B by denying care and becoming “the cause” of the uninsured insurance companies did not manage care they unmanaged it.
We need some competition to keep care management as a good thing becuase consumers are still lights out when it comes to understanding the care system they choose.
Manage Care is mangled care
Managed care is an evolutionary process affecting the delivery of healthcare that will occur regardless of what we call it. Due to the fact that the financial relationship between supply of and the demand for healthcare has been interrupted, some outside force WILL step in to arbitrate that relationship. The question before us now is, who will that be…government or big business?