Managed care in the US

Pioneered by the rapid growth in health maintenance organisations (HMOs) following the eponymous legislation of 1973, managed care plans came to the fore in the US during the late 1980s as part of then-president Ronald Reagan’s healthcare reforms, which abandoned long-standing not-for-profit principles in favour of a for-profit model that would be driven by the…

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