Describe the health and financial burdens this family will experience if Joe's wife develops cancer. She is bedbound and will require a 24 hour caregiver. Managed care companies are criticized for putting cost before the individual patient's needs. Physicians criticize managed care organizations for dictating what they can provide for individual patients. Managed care companies are accused of enrolling only healthy individuals in their programs.
Consumers say they are locked out of seeing specialists when they desire.
Yet, managed care companies have increased the likelihood of individuals and groups receiving preventive services, have increased the use of disease management protocols, and have advanced the practice of outcomes based medicine. Be sure to explore the social and behavioral dimensions in depth.