This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.
Author(s): Joseph L. Verheijde
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 243
Cover......Page 1
Issues in Business Ethics
VOLUME 22......Page 3
Managing Care:
AShared Responsibility......Page 4
ISBN-10 1402041845......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 13
CHAPTER 1
HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SCARCITY OF HEALTH
CARE RESOURCES......Page 15
CHAPTER 2
THE CONCEPT OF MANAGED CARE AND ITS
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 45
CHAPTER 3
IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER......Page 75
CHAPTER 4
THE CONCEPT OF GENUINE RESPONSIBILITY......Page 98
CHAPTER 5
REVISING THE TEMPLATE FOR MODELING
HEALTH CARE......Page 132
CHAPTER 6
THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS......Page 168
CHAPTER 7
IMPLEMENTATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE
SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES......Page 181
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 224
Issues in Business Ethics......Page 231
