Waiting for Godot: wishes and worries in managed care

Article Abstract:

The situation of managed care's failures at improving medical care quality outweighing its success at controlling medical care costs is analyzed. Relatively modest public policy changes can respond to consumer worries about health care and lead to better health care quality.

Analysis, Health care reform

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Arrow's concept of the health care consumer: a forty-year retrospective

Article Abstract:

Changes in the health care industry since Kenneth J. Arrow's 1963 article are discussed and include the increase in medical malpractice suits and the associated doctrine of informed consent, the spread of managed care, and direct-to-consumer medical advertising.

Physicians, Medical malpractice

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Moral hazard versus real hazard: quality of care post-Arrow

Article Abstract:

Arrow's article coming right before a shift in the physician-patient relationship towards greater accountability between the parties is discussed. Thus Arrow's article had the fate of many seminal articles, describing as present a world which had already passed.

Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations

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