Managed Care Harms the Poor, Study Finds

Pressure from managed-care companies to keep medical costs down is threatening indigent patients' access to health-care services, according to a new study financed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The study found that doctors who earn most of their income from the managed-care insurance system provide half as much charity care as do physicians with no managed-care business, and 40 per cent less than those with limited business from managed-care