Publisher's 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
