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Article: Federal, state or other: public wants regulation of managed care despite cost: survey.
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- Business Insurance
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- November 10, 1997
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Public apprehension over whether managed care will deliver care when it's most needed has not translated into a groundswell of support for federal regulation of managed care plans, according to a survey released last week.
The "Kaiser/Harvard National Survey of Americans' Views on Managed Care" found that only 19% of the respondents to the study said the federal government was the entity they would "most" like to see regulate managed care.
Eighteen percent of respondents supported regulation by state governments, but 34% wanted independent, non-profit organizations.
Although 2% of the respondents volunteered they'd like to see another type of ...