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The History and Economic Effects of Managed Care
Although there are several health care payment systems in the United States (US), more than half of the population utilizes managed care as their preferred choice for insurance coverage (D & H Investment Trust, n. ... Managed care can be defined as a conglomerate of different methods of financing and different organizational delivery methods of comprehensive health care to consumers that controls costs by controlling the access to services (Fairfield, Mechanic & Rosleff, 1997). In this paper the authors will discuss the history of managed care and review some of the economic effects of managed care in the US.
Dating back to as early as the 19th century, the current structure of the managed care system that we know today evolved from a series of similar health care arrangements at that time. The goal was to meet the health care needs of select groups of people such as those who worked for the mining, lumber and railroad companies. Contracts were made with physicians, and for a set fee, the physicians provided health care services to these company employees. (Tufts Managed Care Institute, n. ... This arrangement for comprehensive health care services laid the ground work for what is known today as the Kaiser Pemanente Network (Krieg, 1997). In the early 20th century, this model of prepayment continued to emerge and laid the foundation for what soon became known as the Health Maintenance Organization (Tufts Managed Care Institute, n.
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