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How Managed Care Can Be Ethical

The growth of managed care in the United States has been paralleled by a rising tide of anti–managed care sentiment. The "managed care problem" is understood generally as the need to protect individuals against large companies that care more about their bottom line than about people. The premise of the BEST (Best Ethical Strategies for Managed Care) project is that the "managed care problem" is best understood as an ethical problem—a conflict of values that arises as the country changes from a patient-centered to a population-centered approach to health care. The BEST project team worked with nine managed care organizations to identify their most intractable problems. The team redefined these problems in terms of ethical dilemmas, then studied each organization in search of innovative, exemplary approaches. These exemplary approaches are being shared publicly with the aim that they be adapted and adopted by other organizations facing similar difficulties and by regulators and legislators hoping to improve the health care system.

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