Managed Care Effectiveness

Managed care issues were volatile during the last 5 years and the related publications mirror that controversy. An important trait of the articles published on managed care was how quickly they outdated. Much of the literature published in 1999 focused on the source of the managed care backlash or was in response to proposed patients’ bill of rights legislation; for example, the October 1999 issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law was devoted to backlash discussion. Interestingly, none of the articles from that issue were selected for this bibliography because the issue of backlash became a historical one as managed care changed its form in response to the market. Articles included here do cover the consumer and political response to managed care (eg, Draper et al [2002], Feldman [2000], Felt-Lisk et al [2002], and others), but in a manner that views it as a lesson learned and as part of the health care industry’s evolution.