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Doctors too are crippled and pressured by managed care organizations that tend to influence their decisions. Today, Managed care presents an unhealthy prospect and the future for such an unethical, unprofessional and profiteering approach is rather bleak. Under these circumstances of growing public remorse and rancour, it seems rightful for the government to intervene and set right an ailing system which threatens the very object of managed care: that of providing quality medical care. Thus, the future for managed care as it is today, is really bleak and a change is imminent and urgent. It is hoped that a single player system would finally be in place. The bill introduced by Cong. John Conyers, if successfully passed, will create a new positive wave in American medical history. Bibliography

Tufts management care Institute, " a Brief History of Managed Care," Accessed April 25th 2007, available at http://www.thci.org/downloads/BriefHist.pdf

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Steffi Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, " the High Costs of for-Profit Care," June 8, 2004, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Available online at, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/HighCost_ForProfitCare.html

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Tufts management care Institute, " a Brief History of Managed Care," Accessed April 25th 2007, available at http://www.thci.org/downloads/BriefHist.pdf

Kaiser Permanente, "In the Desert a New Kind of Health Care Begins," Accessed April 25th 2007, Available at http://newsmedia.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/historykp/entrypage.do

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Available online at, http://www.mcareol.com/factshts/factplan.htm
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PNHP, "Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Bill," Accessed April 25th 2007, Available online at, http://www.pnhp.org/publications/executive_summary_of_the_united_states_national_health_insurance_act_hr676.php
Drs. Steffi Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, " the High Costs of for-Profit Care," June 8, 2004, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Available online at, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/HighCost_ForProfitCare.html
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