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To the Editor: You provide such an excellent analysis of the problems resulting from the way managed-care organizations currently function (July 6 issue)¹ that I am amazed that you blame this situation on market forces and values in general, as if all markets were the same. The fact is that the marketplace as defined for the managed-care organizations by the statute writers and rule promulgators bears little resemblance to the competitive free market, which has been called the engine of our economic progress. Rather, it is a terribly perverted and distorted market, which has severely limited the free choice of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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