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Clearly the runaway cost of healthcare benefits must be reined in. Is MC the solution? Whether MC is part of the solution, the solution or not the solution seems at the moment academic, since at present it appears to be the only game in town.
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Based on an invited educational lecture at the 6th Asia and Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto, October 1996.
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Sy, W.M. Managed care and Nuclear Medicine in the USA. Ann Nucl Med 11, 1–6 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03164750
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