In the early $1970$s$,$ auto makers complained to the US Congress at Congressional Hearings that there number one supplier was not steel, not rubber, not plastic and not labor but the cost of providing healthcare for employees. Based upon the Kaiser Permanente HMO success, health policy makers and health leaders seeking to satisfy large employers decided to implement managed care. The HMO Act of $1973$ was the legislation that launched the managed care movement. A primary motivation in the development of managed care was to$.$

Question $3$ options:

increase quality of health care

decrease government regulation of health care

decrease quality of health care

contain costs and expenditures of health care