What do you think about allowing some people to purchase additional insurance, thereby creating a two-tier health system based on affordability?
Offer your recommendations, to accept or decline, for patients considering managed care health plans, with your rationale for each.
Explain who bears the financial risk—the provider, the patient, or the managed care organization.
Explain the three types of incentives for providers for efficiency in the delivery of healthcare services.
Explain the positive and negative aspects, respectively, of managed care organization from the provider’s point of view—a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view.
Define and discuss each type of managed care organization (MCO)—health maintenance organization (HMO), preferred provider organization (PPO), and point of sale (POS).
Summarize the history of when, how, and why managed care was developed.
Analyze the benefits and the risks for both providers and patients, and how providers should choose among managed care contracts.
What are the positive and negative aspects of managed care?
Write a report discussing how you would use two of the six research strategies to study the crime of burglary. Examine the strengths and challenges in using these two strategies.