Managed Care

Do health-care firms sacrifice quality to cut costs?

Introduction

More than 50 million workers - 70 percent of the nation's eligible employees - now have health coverage through managed care. The rapid rise of managed-care firms reflects employers' efforts to reduce their expenses for workers' health benefits. But consumer groups worry that concern about costs will drive medical decisions in huge for-profit firms. And physicians' groups ...

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