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Magazine articles on health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical technology.

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Managed Care August 2000	With Cost Study, Group Argues For OTC Benefit A study by HECON Associates, a Maryland-based market research group, supports the claim that when prescription drugs become available over the counter, consumers face increased out-of-pocket costs.
Managed Care August 2000	Any International Health Plan Has To Be Cheap An affordable option for integrated health care bridging private U.S. insurers and Mexico's social security system would save American employers money while providing better care to Mexicans who work in the U.S. but whose families live in Mexico, according to a study.
Managed Care August 2000	Medicare+Choice pullouts' deep, deep sting The health plan exodus from Medicare+Choice will affect 934,000 people in 2001 -- more than were affected in 1999 and 2000 combined, according to the Health Care Financing Administration.
Managed Care August 2000	Headlines on Deadline... Advance Paradigm will buy PCS Health Systems from Rite Aid Corp. for $1 billion... Universal care proposal supporters in Massachusetts try a compromise with legislators... Managed Medicare patients are more costly than patients in fee-for-service Medicare after a stroke...
Managed Care August 2000 Bob Carlson	'All Products' Clauses Fade From Physician Contracts All-products provisions in health plan provider contracts are slowly being negotiated, legislated, and regulated out of existence. They are now illegal in at least four states; legislation is pending in several others.
Managed Care August 2000 Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D.	Supreme Court Ruling Encourages Greater Awareness Among Patients To you and me, the court's holding in Pegram means that patients cannot sue HMOs under ERISA for giving doctors financial incentives to hold down costs. However, as is typical with many court decisions, this makes one wonder whether it doesn't take on a much greater meaning.
Managed Care August 2000	Internet revolution not yet impressing most physicians For all the potential of the Internet to erase old physician doubts about integrating information technology into everyday practice, scant few doctors have embraced it.
Salon.com August 31, 2000 Alan Berlow	Bitter pills Pharmaceutical companies are apoplectic over Gore's prescription drug pricing proposal
Salon.com August 28, 2000 Pegi Taylor	Bone dry After I die, I want maggots to eat away my flesh so my skeleton can be used for research purposes.
Salon.com August 22, 2000 David Tuller	Battling the pharmaceutical Microsoft Hepatitis C activists are angry about Schering-Plough's decision to "bundle" two drugs, one of which is a potentially life-saving pill not available anywhere else.
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