01550pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002100040245009500061260000900156300001300165362000800178520097900186650001801165700002301183773003101206909001001237999001701247952010401264180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMcEldowney, Rene  aNot just for bureaucrats anymore: bureaucrat bashing, overhead democracy, and managed care  c2000  ap.93-110  aMar  aManaged care is increasingly subject to political micromanagement and to attacks in the press. Managed care is undergoing the kind of bureaucrat bashing familiar to government employees, because managed care plans are being asked to perform the same type of allocation of social resources (in this case, access to health care) typically conducted by government employees. In so doing, managed care has run afoul of two deeply ingrained American traditions; bureaucrat bashing and overhead democracy. This article uses a case study of managed care bashing to argue that private interests who perform a role in allocating social resources will be subject to the same type of criticism government employees face in allocating social resources (bureaucrat bashing), as well as political leaders' impulses toward control (overhead democracy). The ombudsman model of governing managed care is advanced as an alternative to managed care bashing and overhead democracy. - Reproduced  aCivil service  aMurray, William L.  aAdministration and Society  a45160  c45160d45160  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 32, Issue no: 1pAR45582r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR