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...

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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...

Health fund NIB has joined with US Managed Care behemoth CIGNA to introduce US Style Managed Care into Australia. The potential repercussions for the Australian healthcare system are significant - The scope for quality private practice work is likely to diminish, with...

Australian healthcare as we know it is under threat - NIB (under the Honeysuckle group) has made a submission to the ACCC to be allowed to run US-style managed health care. Here's an experience from a doctor who used to practice in the US...

The Australian System has served us all very well and we need to preserve control over who has the final decision in patient care. Currently the decision of patient care is made between the Patient and the Doctor and this is how it should be. In US managed care the...

Managed Care is the biggest threat to the doctor-patient relationship in a generation. We must resist US Managed Care to preserve and protect all of us who believe in and value our healthcare system. US Managed Care is an alternative model of healthcare where the...