Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility

Part 1. Health Care Costs and Scarcity. Introduction.- Development of Managed Care.- Rationing: A Dilemma for Ethicists.- Responsibility.- Part 2. The Concept of Managed Care and its Practical Implications.- Introduction.- Quality of Care in Managed Care.- History of Managed Care.- Where Does Managed Care Find its Market.- Definition of Managed Care.- Managed Care as Unknown Territory.- Methodological Concerns Regarding Data Collection.- Population-Based Distribution and Individual Autonomy.- Balancing Responsibilities.- Changes in Managed Care.- Part 3. Ideology: The Silent Partner.- Introduction.- The Concept of Ideology.- Ideology In Medicine.- The Context of Scarcity and its Ideological Impact on Health Care.- Conclusion.- Part 4. Concept of Genuine Responsibility.- Introduction.- Changing the Focus In Health Care Distribution.- The Notion of Responsibility.- Justice And Health Care.- Key Presumptions.- Part 5: Revising The Template For Modeling Health Care.- Introduction.- Necessity For Change.- Defining Health And Health Care.- The Main Parties Involved.- Part 6: Theoretical Reflections.- Introduction.- Managed Care.- The Problem: Who Is Responsible For What?- Justice As Appropriation.- A Template For Responsible Healthcare Distribution.- Part 7: Implementation In U.S. Health Care System: Challenges And Opportunities.- Introduction.- Changing The Views on Business And Profits.- Individual Entitlement And Social Justice.- The Role of Government.- Health Care Planning.- Health Care Budgeting.- Special Interest Groups And Policy Making.- The Minimum Health Care Benefit Package.- The Contribution of Evidence Based Medicine.- Bibliography.- Index.