HEALTH: US-style Managed Care comes to Australia*

A society that does not protect its own is easy prey. For the predators, the strategy is brutally simple — divide and conquer. Select the most vulnerable first, and eliminate them one by one: the weak, the sick, the very young, the dying.In America, this is the strategy of the health insurance industry. Vulnerable patients are expensive, so they are all selectively targetted, leaving only the young and healthy to be insured. This is “managed care”.America’s experience is illuminating. Fi…

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