AAP News Vol. 13 No. 3 March 1997, p. 32
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Nation is still adjusting to managed care realities

Joan Beck

Three of every four insured American workers now get their health care through some form of managed care, a new study reported [recently]. The surprisingly swift shift affects millions of people — many of them not by choice — and has far-reaching economic, political, public health and personal consequences still not widely understood. It also holds unforeseen dangers and calls for new safeguards.

The lure of managed care has always been that it would control the steeply spiraling costs of health insurance for employers and other providers and reduce the soaring percentage of the nation's income spent on medical care.