Research Paper on:
History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

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(2000) writes that Medicare managed care dates from the beginning of the Medicare system in 1964, long before the term "managed care" came to be used. It was in  the middle years of the 1990s that Medicare managed care saw its greatest growth. This was at the time that managed care in general also enjoyed its greatest period  of growth. Managed care can be credited with slowing what formerly was exponential increases in health care costs, and in the process affecting  the national economy. A much greater portion of GDP currently is attributable to health care than in 1960, as example, but it likely would be still greater without the  influence of managed throughout the 1990s. Historical Overview Though managed care as we know it today did not exist at the time that  Title VIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act were created in the mid-1960s, the form that Medicare Part A took then essentially mirrored what would become managed care  for the general population twenty years later. In the 1960s, some employers offered health insurance, but many did not. Individuals carried their own "major medical" policies that would  cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care access has changed today, but not the spirit in  which Medicare and Medicaid originated. Those two programs facilitated the movement away from general practice and into specialties, and they engendered the concept that all citizens should have access  to health care, and that a third party would pay the bulk of the cost. In the beginning, Medicare was to exist in