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December 21, 2008

Ethical Practice in Managed Care: A Dose of Realism

by @ 10:46 am. Filed under Healthcare, group rights

Mark A. Hall, JD, and Robert A. Berenson, MD
Annals of Internal Medicine
1 March 1998 | Volume 128 Issue 5 | Pages 395-402

It is untenable for the medical profession to continue asserting an idealistic ethic that is contradicted so openly in daily practice. However, a satisfactory ethic appropriate to the managed care era has not yet been developed to replace the traditional ethic. Many in the profession have not come to terms with the conflicting expectations they now face and so feel caught in a moral crisis.

December 1, 2008

The Privatization of Risk and the Growing Economic Insecurity of Americans

by @ 9:52 am. Filed under Uncategorized

This site bears further examination The Privatization of Risk

The thought occurs to me that what is implicitly expected of the state in terms of help with risk is that the my retirement availability and level be guaranteed. Are current systems sharing risks or merely pushing them somewhere else? Think regional, think Katrina, or intergenerational, think Social Security as you ponder that question.

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