The Ethics of Managed Care: Professional Integrity and Patient Rights

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for skholders, not necessarily medical care for clients. Cost-effective medicine was the goal in the context of a profit-making enterprise. Although preventive health care programs were promised, very few were realized and they were not nearly comprehensive. The definition of unnecessary testing slowly expanded to mean virtually any high-cost test requiring the service of a medical specialist, and low­ priced g...