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Managed Care Blues
Zelman, Walter A.; Berenson, Robert A.
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Description for Managed Care Blues
Paperback. Shattering the myths about what's wrong with managed health care, this title explains its origins and identifies its real achievements and shortcomings. It argues that many criticisms of managed care tend to idealize the costly and fragmented insurance system it supplanted, without pinpointing the true inadequacies of today's managed care. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPQB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Shattering the myths about what's wrong with managed health care, this penetrating introduction to managed care explains its origins and identifies its real achievements and shortcomings. Walter A. Zelman and Robert A. Berenson argue that many criticisms of managed care tend to idealize the costly and fragmented insurance system it supplanted, without pinpointing the true inadequacies of today's managed care. In addition to providing reasoned answers to the most alarmist critiques of managed care, the authors maintain that it has not fulfilled its potential to improve the overall quality of care. The authors propose thirteen concrete recommendations for raising quality ... Read more
Shattering the myths about what's wrong with managed health care, this penetrating introduction to managed care explains its origins and identifies its real achievements and shortcomings. Walter A. Zelman and Robert A. Berenson argue that many criticisms of managed care tend to idealize the costly and fragmented insurance system it supplanted, without pinpointing the true inadequacies of today's managed care. In addition to providing reasoned answers to the most alarmist critiques of managed care, the authors maintain that it has not fulfilled its potential to improve the overall quality of care. The authors propose thirteen concrete recommendations for raising quality ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9780878406807
SKU
V9780878406807
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99-50
About Zelman, Walter A.; Berenson, Robert A.
Walter A. Zelman is an instructor in health policy and management at the School of Public Health at Harvard University. He has served as a special deputy to the commissioner of the California Department of Insurance and as the California director of Common Cause, the public interest group. Robert A. Berenson, MD, is currently director of the Center ... Read more
Reviews for Managed Care Blues
Timely ... presents a well balanced review of the managed health care world as it actually exists... provides a fine resource for those who genuinely want, or need, to take a balanced review of managed health care ... The authors provide a worthy service in elucidating, as clearly and articulately as one might hope, a fair discussion of issues in ... Read more