This article highlights the formal and informal opportunities president to act unilaterally, and thus potentially regulate managed care in their own way through the role of the state as a buyer -. "Buyer power", which is called here the President can act independently to move policy in any way they want, and there it will stay as long as either of the Congress, the courts, or the market reacts efficiently. On the strategic use of regulations and directives in the federal bureaucracy, President Clinton used the "buyer power" to implement a number of consumer protection as a condition of any contract between the federal "public" buyers and health plans. In practice, these health plans and insurers wishing to do business with the federal government must comply with the terms of the President, or others do not have to enter into a contract or go out after the fact, when they act against the nature of the new provisions of the "Hide
by Daniel P. Gitterman Source: California Management Review 19 pages. Publication date: 01 Oct 2000. Prod. #: CMR189-PDF-ENG
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