March 1, 2023
Podcast host Joe Sparks marvels at the stubborn persistence of managed care in the U.S., which began in earnest with the HMO Act of 1973.
“We keep trying programs that assume for-profit intermediaries can save money and improve health outcomes,” he says, “even though 50 years of failure have shown that these programs don’t work.”
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