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Previous Volume 349:918 August 28, 2003 Number 9

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By George C. Halvorson and George J. Isham. 271 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2003. $30. ISBN 0-7879-6888-9.

Health care costs are out of control, the quality of health care is frightfully low, and far too many people are uninsured. The solution, according to George Halvorson and George Isham, is managed care. This is not your father's managed care. It is the new managed care, in which health plans focus more on improving the quality of care and less on rationing care. Halvorson and Isham worked together doing just that at HealthPartners, a Minnesota-based health plan. Halvorson now heads Kaiser Permanente.

After exploring the behaviors of providers, consumers, and health plans that led to the current state of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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