"Seeking to end the rapid rise in health care costs, in the 1990s employers embraced managed care plans -- plans, like health maintenance organizations, that restricted consumers' choices with narrow networks, as well as requirements for preapproval for some forms of treatment.... These cost-saving measures became increasingly unpopular. The backlash was swift and severe. Today's new narrow network plans also restrict choices, so will they suffer the same fate as 1990s managed care?"

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