摘要: I have criticized managed care in these pages several times before,1–7 and am about to do so again. This time concerned not access care, incentives undertreat, or the loss of physicians' integrity, but policies pronouncements American Association Health Plans (AAHP), principal organization that represents care. believe its recently announced initiative called “Putting Patients First” amounts little more than a thinly veiled attempt ward off state federal legislative actions curb abuses The AAHP has approximately 1000 . . .