Assignment: Critical Thinking:

Managed Care refers to the cost management of healthcare services by controlling who the consumer sees and how much the service costs.

Providers and consumers are concerned with the quality of care when the insurance companies are focused on cost control.

Explain the strengths and weaknesses of managed care system in the US healthcare system.

After watching “High Price of Health” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hmo…

and reading Chapter 9, “Impact of Managed Care on Healthcare Delivery”, both outline the strengths and weaknesses of this type of practice. Using examples from these sources (and/or any of your own sources of information) write if you believe that using an assembly line approach to providing healthcare is the best model.