title: Managed care mythology: supply-side dreams die hard.
abstract: As managed care gains increasing influence over the American health financing system, economic pressures and emerging market realities have created a fertile climate for wishful thinking on the part of hospital executives and physicians. Rather than accept the inevitability of reducing excess capacity and incomes, providers cling to self-serving myths about managed care's strategic direction. Here are five of these myths along with their contrasting market realities.
authors.affiliation: Health Futures, Inc., Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Goldsmith
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Goran
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002204:Capitation Fee; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics; D004465:Economic Competition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009229:Mythology; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans; D010821:Physicians, Family; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014481:United States