TY  - JOUR
T1  - EThics and managed care can coexist with a free market
AU  - Loewy EH, Loewy RA
Y1  - 1999/06/28
N1  - 
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1375
EP  - 1376
VL  - 159
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Blumberg argues that capitalist markets that "function under imposed restraints . . . allow scarce, life-sustaining resources to reach all members of a society," whereas state-controlled systems make decisions "from the top down" resulting in a lack of initiative and a paucity of new ideas. The author believes that managed care, while it could stand improvements, has a good chance of addressing our problems. He states that "the answers we get from managed care organizations . . . are usually messages carried and explained by physicians." If by this the author means that physicians working in the managed care arena play a significant part in determining the policies of managed care associations, I fear that he is in error.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -