Two commentaries: defining the challenge and opportunities for children in managed health care.
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M any parents of children with special health care needs, myself included, have not embraced managed care as the best system of care for our children. For populations with special needs, managed care is new and unproven, and seems terribly risky when the stakes are so high. When our children’s health system fails, it wreaks havoc on our entire family structures and our daily lives. However, we know that managed care is here to stay, and that its principles offer opportunities for improving our children’s health care. We want and need to become partners with the other stakeholders who are developing managed care systems for children with special health care needs. Our goal is to take the best of the old fee-for-service system, combine it with the opportunities that managed care has to offer, and ensure that our children’s needs are met in the most effective way possible within the realities of today’s cost limitations. We realize what a daunting task this is, but developing managed care systems for children with special needs is at a critical stage, and how we proceed may determine the future for our most vulnerable children.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Future of children
دوره 8 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998