title: Has managed care lost its soul?
abstract: Competition has transformed managed care from social movement to corporate colossus. In fact, the earliest health plans were founded with far more idealistic goals than cutting corporate America's health care tab. Here's why that shift troubles many managed care pioneers.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004465:Economic Competition; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006269:Health Facilities, Proprietary / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D008503:Medical Staff; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D009939:Organizations, Nonprofit; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States