What is the motivation behind the cost-control features of managed care?

a.To ensure access to specialty care through general practitioner gatekeepers.
b.To influence the way physicians practice medicine by changing the financial incentive structure of medical care delivery.
c.To shift the financial risk onto patients.
d.To eliminate all the guesswork from diagnoses by establishing practice guidelines.
e.To create competition by providing patients with a wide range of providers.

Answer:
C is the closest, but in truth it's about insurers making more and spending less in any way possible, even if it's to the detriment of the health of their insured.
It's supposed to be C.

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