__________________ has become the dominant form of health care delivery in the U.S., which makes insurance companies as third-party payers important in both bolstering medicalization through its coverage of particular services and a constraint in placing limitations on those services.

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Managed care, with its emphasis on controlling costs and limiting unnecessary treatments, has become the dominant form of health care delivery in the U.S. This has given insurance companies, who act as third-party payers, an important role in both promoting and constraining medicalization through their coverage decisions. Fee-for-service and Medicare/Medicaid are important components of the health care system, but they do not have the same level of influence on medicalization as managed care does.

__________________ Has Become the Dominant Form of Health Care Delivery