AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
American women repeatedly have expressed the view that reproductive health care is basic care to which they should have "direct access"--that is, without first having to get permission either from a managed care plan or from a primary care provider within the plan. The managed care industry, along with state and federal policymakers, is responding in a variety of ways. But translating this principle into practice remains a significant challenge.
With the demise of national health care reform in 1993, attention largely has shifted from broad-based systemic reform toward limited, incremental approaches to discrete issues. In the intervening years, Congress and the ...