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Managed Competition: A Critical Analysis
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 5, Number 3, 1994
- pp. 252-255
- 10.1353/hpu.2010.0448
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Proposals for managed competition offered by President Clinton and members of Congress would foster the proliferation of health maintenance organizations, which in turn could increase bureaucracy, reduce patients' choice of providers, restrict providers' medical practices, and benefit already profitable insurance companies. A single-payer alternative presents a more viable way of reducing administrative costs and providing health insurance for all.