The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities ostensibly intended to reduce the cost of providing for profit health care and providing health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques"). It has become the essentially exclusive system of delivering and receiving American health caresince its implementation in the early 1980s, and has been largely unaffected by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
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