Regulating Managed Care: Theory, Practice, and Future Options (Jossey-Bass Health)

David Shactman, Peter Ed. Reinhardt,Altman

ISBN 10: 0787947830 / ISBN 13: 9780787947835

Published by John Wiley & Sons 1999-06-25, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Regulating Managed Care: Theory, Practice, and Future Options (Jossey-Bass Health)
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons 1999-06-25
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787947830
• ISBN 13: 9780787947835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

What should be government's role in a market-oriented health caresystem?

What's the appropriate amount of regulation?

Who should regulate-states, federal government, or marketforces?

What role do the courts play in this regulation?

Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing aneffective regulatory structure?

Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating ManagedCare, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts givehealth care administrators, clinicians, and policy makers insightinto the issues behind this critical exchange and provide leaderswith a road map to assess the policy options available to protectthe quality of our health care delivery system.

"This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors,makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and willbe of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our healthcare system."---Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO GlaxoInc. and former general director, Massachusetts General Hospital

About the Author

STUART H. ALTMAN is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and chair, Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University. He has held key health policy offices for Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. UWE E. REINHARDT is James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University. He is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Health Affairs, and other publications. DAVID SHACTMAN is project director, Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University.