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Consumer Choice and the Managed Care Backlash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

Alain C. Enthoven ,
Helen H. Schauffler  and
Sara McMenamin
Alain C. Enthoven
Affiliation:
Center for Health Policy, Institute for International Studies, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Stanford University, 1952; Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), 1954; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956
Helen H. Schauffler
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley. Skidmore College, 1973, Harvard University, 1976, Brandeis University, 1989. Health Services Administration at the Harvard University School of Public Health and health care management consultant for Arthur D. Little, Inc. Prof. Schauffler is the King Sweesy and Robert Womack Chair in Medical Research and Public Health at University of California, Berkeley.
Sara McMenamin
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, 1996, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
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The backlash against managed care, in general, and Health Maintenance Organizations (“HMOs”), in particular, is a major health policy issue. It has led to the formation of major commissions at the national and state levels, and to a great outpouring of legislative activity. The U.S. Congress has been deadlocked over various versions of a Patients’ Bill of Rights for the past two years. As a nation, we are far from resolving the many problems consumers report experiencing with their HMOs. However, to prescribe an effective solution to the problem, it is important to understand the root causes of the consumer backlash. It is, after all, possible that a Patients’ Bill of Rights will do little if it is not targeted to correct what is really bothering people about HMOs.

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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 2001 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2020

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17 The establishment of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force was added by 1996 Cal. Stat. 815 § 1 (introduced as A.B. 2343). See Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1342.1 (West 2000). See also Survey Brief, supra note 15, at 1. Section II of this article discusses the survey conducted by the MCTF. For clarity’s sake, individual citations to the MCTF’s report to the governor have been omitted. For more information on the MCTF survey and findings, see generally Findings and Recommendations, supra note 15 (discussing the MCTF survey and findings).

18 See infra Table 1.

19 See infra Table 2.

20 See infra Table 3.

21 See infra Table 4.

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26 See id., Table 4.

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29 See id.