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Is managed care ethical?
1Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. 20007, USA.
General Hospital Psychiatry
|October 9, 1999
Abstract:
The author identifies ethical dilemmas inherent in fee-for-service medicine (grounded in patients' autonomous decision making) and managed care (grounded in the principle of efficiency). He argues that the moral legitimacy of the latter system of health care is more in question, and suggests a methodology for assessing its ethical status.
Keywords:
Health Care and Public Health