Money saved should be redirected toward primary care and preventive medicine.

The intense movement toward managed care has led many of these patient groups to seek protective rules.

In addition to the nationwide move toward managed care, it appears to me there is an element of retaliation.

One reason is that their systems are oriented toward primary care.

A. We're already seeing some dramatic changes, and they're all moving toward managed care.

The shift toward general care, he said, threatens his hospital's goal of training residents in certain medical specialties.

It's just not sufficient to say that we will point you toward medical care.

The shift toward managed care has allowed companies to keep their health care costs down.

They support that government financial aid goes toward foster care and placement programs.

Moving toward managed care will presumably cut down on the use of hospital beds, which cost between $800 and $1,100 a night, officials say.