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Managed Care February 2005 Jack McCain	Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance?
Managed Care February 2005 John A. Marcille	Is This the Health Care Revolution That We Need? Reports on former house speaker Newt Gingrich's vision for health care.
Managed Care February 2005 John Carroll	Just What Can We Expect From New Head of HHS? How much will plans have to "be like Mike" -- Leavitt, that is. The influence of the secretary of health and human services reaches beyond the public sector.
Managed Care February 2005	Medicare's Drug Coverage Seeks To Strike Compromise Health plan officials are still trying to determine just how the final rules for the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will affect them, because it appears that government officials tried their best to address the competing concerns of all players.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Social Security: A Trial Balloon That's Dropping Fast Bush's hints about higher payroll taxes as part of Social Security reform spook supporters and don't sway Dems.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Mike McNamee	For High Earners, a Higher Limit? Taxing high earners on more of their pay could go a long way toward filling Social Security's long-term funding gap -- and boost economic growth in the short run. But over time, a stiff tax hike on these workers could stall productivity and limit the economy's growth.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Paul Craig Roberts	Private Accounts: Right Idea, Wrong Time Strike One against Bush's Social Security privatization plan is the inability of the weakening dollar to carry the debt burden required to finance the transition to privatization. Foreigners are drowning in dollars. But there's more.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 John Carey	Side Effects Of The Drug Scares New fears give rise to a more honest look at the risks for a pill-popping nation.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Stephen Cass	Writing NASA's Marching Orders "New Moon Rising: The Making of America's New Space Vision and the Remaking of NASA," provides a lucid look at the messy and tangled process by which national science and engineering policy really gets made.
Reason March 2005 Matt Welch	Taking the Fifth When journalists threaten our right to remain silent.
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