Managed Care's Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Good managed care is a good thing, and bad managed care is a bad thing; the principal challenge to policy makers should be to learn how to better distinguish the good from the bad, to promote the good, eliminate the bad, and to find ways to make the good better. Instead, policy makers devote their f...

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Published in:Journal of health politics, policy and law policy and law, 1999-10, Vol.24 (5), p.1207-1211
Main Author: Vladeck, Bruce C.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Attitude to Health
Consumer Behavior
Contemporary problems
Countermovements
Delivery Systems
Expectations
Government policy
Health care policy
Health Care Services Policy
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Health Policy
Health services
HMOs
Humans
Life & health insurance
Managed care
Managed Care Programs
Managed Care Services
Medicare
Medicine and Health
Negative campaigning
Policy Analysis
Policy Making
Political Science
Politics
Private health care
Public Health and Health Policy
Public Opinion
Public Policy
Reforms
Social policy
Theory Practice Relationship
U.S.A
United States
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Summary:Good managed care is a good thing, and bad managed care is a bad thing; the principal challenge to policy makers should be to learn how to better distinguish the good from the bad, to promote the good, eliminate the bad, and to find ways to make the good better. Instead, policy makers devote their finite energies to diversions like consumer protections, which are designed to regulate individual manifestations of system failures rather than to redesign the system. Good managed care is a good thing, and bad managed care is a bad thing; there is a lot of both around, and the principal challenge to policy makers (and analysts) should be to learn how to better distinguish the good ones from the bad, to promote the good, eliminate the bad, and to find ways to make the good ones better. Instead, policy makers devote their finite energies to diversions like 'Patients' Bills of Rights' or consumer protections, which are designed to regulate individual manifestations of system failures rather than to redesign the system.
ISSN:0361-6878
1527-1927
DOI:10.1215/03616878-24-5-1207