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This 4 page paper discusses managed health care and the ethics of them. The essay identifies the limits placed on patients and physicians. The basic argument is that managed health care companies are neither ethical nor moral. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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criticize it for what it refuses to do and from taking the control of a patients health care out of the hands of physicians and placing it in the hands
of bureaucrats who are interested only in revenue. Even selection of physicians and other health care services is dependent upon the HMO the patient subscribes to. They all have member-doctors
and ancillary services and while some do allow a patient to choose someone outside of the network, that visit will cost more than accessing services that are in the network.
Among the many different issues a patient experiences under managed care is the specific medications/drugs covered and the number of days a patient is allowed to stay in a hospital.
These are not empty complaints, they are real and they are a detriment to the patients health. These rules can in no way be perceived as ethical since they put
revenue as the first priority and the patients health as a second or third priority. It should be the opposite. The ethical approach is for physician or other health care
provider to specify what is best for the patient and for the patient to be completely involved in that decision. As this author commented, there has been a great deal
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health care. This issue goes even further insofar as medical autonomy,
in terms of professional health care providers, is limited. This takes the issue in the very broad area of social values, which is, in turn, about the values that need
to guide a patients decisions as well as the providers decisions. This author states that "Traditional Catholic theological anthropology helps establish an important background for todays concern about autonomy and
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