A nursing student interviews a member of the local congressional distr

A nursing student interviews a member of the local congressional district to learn more about the health care system in the United States. Which statement made by the congressman would be accurate?

a. “Managed care was short-lived because too many consumer groups endorsed the plans.”
b. “Under managed care, clients had unlimited access to providers of their choice.”
c. “Managed care failed because Americans were used to free access to providers of their choice.”
d. “Managed care in the United States has been replaced by the Affordable Health Care for America Act.”

ESSAYBID ANSWER

ANS: C
Consumer groups were not only accustomed to freedom of choice and unlimited service, but they did not like the ideas of short-stay maternity care and denial of bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer patients, thus managed care failed in the United States.