At the meeting, Relman offered his views on the evolution of managed care and outlined the role physicians need to play to bring about health care reform. Managed care totally neglects the community function and education function and clinical research function, without which you do not have a health care system. Critical to this plan's success, he said, will be physician involvement.
Doctors have to be part of the solution.
The current system will be replaced piecemeal, Relman predicted. Relman suggested that all beneficiaries contribute to overall healthcare funding, according to their means, via a type of health care tax.