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Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. L. Joseph Verheijde

    1. College of Medicine, Rochester, USA

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  • Summary of the challenges of the managed care system
  • Offers a theoretical framework to improve access to quality but affordable health care provided in a competitive market environment
  • Calls for cooperation and a shared responsibility by all parties involved in health care

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 22)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SCARCITY OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 1-30

  3. THE CONCEPT OF MANAGED CARE AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 31-60

  4. IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 61-83

  5. THE CONCEPT OF GENUINE RESPONSIBILITY

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 85-118

  6. REVISING THE TEMPLATE FOR MODELING HEALTH CARE

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 119-154

  7. THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 155-167

  8. IMPLEMENTATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

    • L. Joseph Verheijde
    Pages 169-211

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 213-220
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The goal of this book is to propose an alternative approach to address the problem of the exponential rise of health care costs, and, more importantly, to address the lingering dilemma of how to establish broadly agreed-upon fundamental guidelines by which health care can be managed in a manner that is more morally appropriate. Although in no way a new concept, the notion that society’s financial resources, even when it comes to health care, are indeed limited is one with which the general public has grown increasingly familiar only during the past two decades. Familiarity, however, does not automatically imply public appreciation for the strategies that have been implemented to curb the problems of health care. These strategies have customarily been designed to change the distribution of health care, such as by limiting patient choices, reducing access, lowering utilization, increasing premiums, requiring higher deductibles, or shifting financial responsibilities. In other words, the main focus has been on making the patient, or as the commodity market would say, the consumer, more responsible.

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  • College of Medicine, Rochester, USA

    L. Joseph Verheijde

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