US Managed Care is a health care delivery system organized and intended to manage cost, utilization, and quality and yet fails to do so on all fronts. This is not the direction we want our Australian Healthcare System to follow. The 2020 OECD report includes...

US Healthcare has become one of the most lucrative industries, with billions of dollars up for grabs, and millions of people left to struggle and bear the costs. US managed care has driven patients to become more scared of the financial consequences that treating the...

Why follow a model that has been proven to be flawed? US managed care has been well documented with deficiencies in healthcare quality, exorbitant cost, disjointed, fragmented delivery of care that can lead to patient harm & breach in patient privacy. These...

"Health Insurance is not Healthcare" is a simple yet powerful mantra that we should remember, now more than ever. With the creep of US style managed care into the Australian Healthcare system and insidiously into the patient-doctor relationship, we have to work...

Watch Dr Carmen Brown discuss the likely impact of implementing US style managed care to the Australian healthcare. She shares her personal experiences, the effect of managed care on patient care and the patient-doctor relationship. Warning of moving away from patient...

Dr Peter Sumich discusses with Health Industry Hub the adverse impact of introducing US style managed care into the Australian Healthcare system in the midst of ACCC of considering authorisation of Honeysuckle Cigna NIB buying group. Follow Link to article...

Listen to Dr Suzi Nou's Podcast chat with Dr Carmen Brown about why she left the US and what might be in store for the Australian health system.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record...Why should we "Send The Eagle Home?" AND Say No to US Managed Healthcare? Simple - It's restrictive to Patient Choice, restrictive to Doctor autonomy, it threatens patient-centric care and thrusts healthcare into pure...

The main objective of US Style managed care is to restrict choice by offering limited “network” providers with cheaper more affordable plans. Managed health care plans are dependent on a restricted number of "network of key players", including health care providers,...

Managed care is the most common form of health care in the United States and mammoth Cigna NIB conglomerate Honeysuckle, is insidiously introducing this US Style Managed Care into the Australian Healthcare System. It is available to individuals in three common...

Compared with many nations, Australia's health system is efficient, equitable and effective. Managed Health Care threatens clinical and patient autonomy - limits quality & disease management and ultimately changes the way health care is delivered to improve...

The future of Australian Health Care as it stands is under threat. Under the umbrella of Honeysuckle, multi billion dollar company Cigna has joined NIB wielding great pulling power, to thrust Australian Healthcare into US style Managed Care System. The risk is not...