Talk:Managed care

message: After further reading, this article is horrible.  Very biased, I can hardly even glean any useful information from it.  Roy Harmon 05:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: After

message: Much of the information, particularly under the "HMO" section, is incorrect these days.  HMO's are far less strict than previously, and many now have an "open access" option whereby a selection of a gate-keeper, or PCP, is no longer required.  In fact, they are indistinguishable from PPO plans.  I will work on this when I have time, or somebody else please do it.  I just hate to see incorrect information here!  If a grade-school student had to write a paper on managed healthcare and relied upon this information, they would flunk!!  00:01, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs work.... 

message: Besides the criticisms levied above (namely, that the article reflects an out-of-date perception of the healthcare system), this article has NPOV problems. In particular, the article attempts to place all of the blame on problems with the system on health insurance companies, accusing them of malice and anticonsumer behavior while ignoring any benefits to managed care (in particular, lower prices). Oftentimes, such as in the article's discussion of medical inflation, when the reality doesn't match the authors' viewpoint, the article just makes up analysis.
Overall, this page needs a serious rewrite. Cheers, Vectro 16:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: What is managed care?  The article doesn't explain what it is, just what it's done — or more to the point, what different people think it's done.  Nyttend 01:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is it? 

message: I was looking for an article on Gatekeeper functions in health care systems and discovered that an original article Gatekeeper physician had at one time been created which seems like a good idea. But it now redirects to the article Managed care which is a purely U.S. term and to me seems inappropariate in a global context.  
Many international health care systems use doctors as gatekeepers to ensure equitable access to health care resources and in the countries where I have seen it working, it is largely successful at containing costs and maximizing efficiency. The US experience seems to be rather the exception and not the rule. I was therefore wondering if I should re-instate Gatekeeper physician as an independent article so that it could be more internationally based. It could point to Managed care in the case of an example in US insured medicine. 
I was at the same time wonndering whether there are Gatekeeper functions held by doctors in the US outside of HMOs and the like. For example in the military or veterans health care systems, or in the programs for native indian americans which are government controlled. It would seem highly likely but I do not know anything about these systems other than the limited sources that I have read which does not enable me to decide one way or another.
Comments please. --Tom (talk) 17:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-instate Gatekeeper physisican as an international article? 

message: this article on case management needs some expert attention please.  I have recently started a Case management (disambiguation) page as the there are other case management terms, including a more general term medical case management Thanks for help Earlypsychosis (talk) 08:22, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  need some help with the [[Case management (USA health system)]] 

message: The introductory paragraph is one, single very long sentence. And it's incomprehensible. Could someone who understands the topic please improve on this? 78.16.228.250 (talk) 19:18, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

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