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University of Michigan Law School

1999

Health care policy

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How Not To Think About "Managed Care", Jacob S. Hacker, Theodore R. Marmor Jul 1999

How Not To Think About "Managed Care", Jacob S. Hacker, Theodore R. Marmor

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The claim of this Article is that the concept of "managed care," like many concepts now prominent in commentary about medical care finance and delivery in the United States, is incoherent and thus a barrier to useful analysis. To demonstrate this conclusion, we first discuss the managerial context in which managed care claims have arisen and outline the diverse trends to which the category is regularly and confusingly applied. We then suggest an alternative approach to characterizing recent changes in medical care and show how this approach alters and deepens our understanding of recent economic and political developments. We conclude …


Managed Care- The First Chapter Comes To A Close, Sallyanne Payton Jul 1999

Managed Care- The First Chapter Comes To A Close, Sallyanne Payton

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Introduction to the symposium, Managed Care: What's the Prognosis: Managing Care in the Next Century.