title: Rehabbing Medicare. Is managed care a cure-all or just a crutch?
abstract: Money, or the prospect of saving it, is what's rallying many in Congress around supporting managed care as Medicare's magic bullet. And financial, as well as community, incentives are certainly helping to push Medicare managed care programs forward in the delivery system. But will those programs accomplish everything their advocates expect?
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authors.lastname: Cerne
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002204:Capitation Fee; D017046:Cost Savings; D003625:Data Collection; D015271:Insurance Pools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D014481:United States; D014768:Virginia