History Of Man Managed Care

Managed care has been used in the United States for over 100 years. They were not considered insurance for a long time, but rather prepaid health care. Prepaid health care was a way of paying for health care service rather than protecting them from financial losses. Managed care was developed for employees and dependents and it was a way of providing an affordable prepaid health care services. Managed care went from cheaper, more restrictive to more expensive, less restrictive. The way this works is each employee paid a small annual fee to the physician and by that gained unlimited access to the health care services the physician provided.
Today prepaid health coverages are referred as health maintenance organizations (HMOs). However, this