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Magazine articles on HMO's and other insurance companies.

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Managed Care February 2006 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Health Pains Two studies suggest that consumer-directed health care may not be a long-term method for controlling health care costs.
Managed Care February 2006 John A. Marcille	Managed Care, It Seems, Is Now Just a Fact of Life Health care cost is so much the issue now that the overblown complaints about improper withholding of care are yesterday's news.
Managed Care February 2006 John Carroll	Looking for Bold Ideas? Sit Out the Off-Year Election As we enter a year with a congressional election, candidates are unlikely to stir things up with imaginative, comprehensive proposals for affordable and accessible health care.
Managed Care February 2006	Medicare's Efficiency Over-Hyped, Study Claims The belief that Medicare is a more efficient system than employee-sponsored health insurance comes under fire in a study that claims there are hidden costs in the government program.
Managed Care February 2006	Managed Care Offered to More Medicaid Enrollees A chart illustrates the percentage of medicaid enrollees in managed care, for the years 1996 to 2004.
Managed Care February 2006 Martin Sipkoff	'Put All Your Drugs Into a Bag and Take It to Your Pharmacist' Health plans, with their view of the complete spectrum of patient care, are in a unique position to identify problems with polypharmacy.
Managed Care February 2006	For Drugs, the VA Pays Far Less Than Medicare A recent survey indicates that prices for the top 20 drugs used by Medicare enrollees are much higher than prices negotiated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Managed Care February 2006 Thomas Morrow	New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Has Potential to Reduce Payer's Costs B-cells and their markers, once overlooked in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis, may hold the key for a new treatment regimen.
Managed Care February 2006 Lola Butcher	Plans Put Provider Prices Out For Their Enrollees to Inspect Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and others are taking a variety of approaches in supplying information to members who are paying more out of pocket.
Managed Care February 2006	Health Care Plans & Providers to Invest Heavily in IT Services The payer market for health care IT will expand by a 7 percent compound annual rate over five years.
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