Competition may ensure quality in managed care

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Allowing patients to control their choice is the only way to ensure quality in health care. Managed care is currently cost-focused, in order to be competitive. Increased competition will cause managed care providers to either spend more to obtain new patients or offer more benefits at the same cost and thus decrease their profits. Quality of care, therefore, is not the determining factor for managed care competitors. If the competition narrows the market to the most financially sound managed care providers, patients and their physicians will become the primary decision-makers.

Personal Health Care, Health care industry, Quality management, Medical care quality, Self care (Health)

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Harvard doctors enjoy new life as medical group

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Harvard Vanguard Medical Assoc, an independent, multispecialty medical group of 550 doctors and 350 allied health providers, began operation on Jan 1, 1998. The medical group had previously been employed by Boston, MA-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan. The physicians hope to distinguish their quality of care, provide their patients with a greater freedom of choice of physicians and remain competitive in Boston's competitive managed care marketplace.

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

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How best to take medical care into the 21st century

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Patients should take more financial responsibility for their health care and health insurance to the extent that they can afford to do so. Also, physicians should be allowed more power to allocate medical resources due to increases in patients' demands for quality health care. Also, health insurance should not be a benefit of employment, but rather property owned by the patient.

Health Care, Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Analysis, Column, Health insurance, Health care reform

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