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"What should be government's role in a market-oriented health caresystem? What's the appropriate amount of regulation? Who should regulate-states, federal government, or marketforces? What role do the courts play in this regulation? Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing aneffective regulatory structure? Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating ManagedCare, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts givehealth care administrators, clinicians, and policy makers insightinto the issues behind this critical exchange and provide leaderswith a road map to assess the policy options available to protectthe quality of our health care delivery system. ""This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors,makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and willbe of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our healthcare system.""---Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO GlaxoInc. and former general director, Massachusetts General Hospital"

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This is a very useful collection of essays by some of the nation's most influential health policy experts. Topics covered: the theory of regulation, the ways in which the HMO industry does and does not fit the standard model, and consumer and insurance industry perspectives on regulation and practical implementation issues. (Bryan E. Dowd, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Hospital & Health Networks, March 2000) This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors, makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our health care system. (Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO, Glaxo Inc., and former general director, Massachusetts General Hospital) This balanced collection of cutting-edge papers reviewing the theory and practice of health regulation is a must-read for those who regulate and for those regulated by this market-moving the debate from whether to regulate to how to do this most difficult task more effectively. (W. David Helms, CEO, Association for Health Services Research and president, Alpha Center)

This is a very useful collection of essays by some of the nation's most influential health policy experts. Topics covered: the theory of regulation, the ways in which the HMO industry does and does not fit the standard model, and consumer and insurance industry perspectives on regulation and practical implementation issues. (Bryan E. Dowd, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Hospital & Health Networks, March 2000) <br> This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors, makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our health care system. (Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO, Glaxo Inc., and former general director, Massachusetts General Hospital) <br> This balanced collection of cutting-edge papers reviewing the theory and practice of health regulation is a must-read for those who regulate and for those regulated by this market-moving the debate from whether to reg

This is a very useful collection of essays by some of the nation's most influential health policy experts. Topics covered: the theory of regulation, the ways in which the HMO industry does and does not fit the standard model, and consumer and insurance industry perspectives on regulation and practical implementation issues. (Bryan E. Dowd, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Hospital & Health Networks, March 2000) <br> This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors, makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our health care system. (Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO, Glaxo Inc., and former general director, Massachusetts General Hospital) <br> This balanced collection of cutting-edge papers reviewing the theory and practice of health regulation is a must-read for those who regulate and for those regulated by this market-moving the debate from whether to regulate to how to do this most difficult task more effectively. (W. David Helms, CEO, Association for Health Services Research and president, Alpha Center)

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STUART H. ALTMAN is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and chair, Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University. He has held key health policy offices for Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. UWE E. REINHARDT is James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University. He is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Health Affairs, and other publications. DAVID SHACTMAN is project director, Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University.

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