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Salon.com January 21, 2000 Dena Bunis	Making health an issue Clinton continues to push for reforms.
Managed Care December 2001	Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs...
Managed Care November 1999	Reform Bill's OK Prompts Clashes, Dire Predictions Not surprisingly, the House of Representatives' 275--161 vote affirming the Norwood-Dingell health care reform bill prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth from the insurance industry....
Managed Care January 2001	Study: Elderly Exit When They Exceed Rx Benefit Cap In a study that confirms what has long been assumed, Medicare HMO enrollees become more likely to drop their carriers when they exceed annual pharmacy-benefit caps...
Managed Care February 2007	Managed Care Outlook Coverage for children leads policy debate.
Managed Care July 2002	Survey: Health System Changes Should Not Be Made Too Quickly A sweeping change to the American health care industry, such as a wholesale move to a system based on defined contribution, is not favored by most people, according to a national survey that seems to reflect a conservative mood regarding medical coverage and prescription drug benefits.
Managed Care July 2005	Seeing is believing? Medicare reform seems to be taking root.
Managed Care March 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	Illinois's Medicare Drug Program Called 1st Stab at National Reform The Illinois demonstration program gives the state permission to use federal and state Medicaid dollars to provide prescription drug coverage for 365,000 low-income, elderly Medicare beneficiaries...
Managed Care December 2002	M+C meltdown hinders access to medications The fact that health plans are abandoning Medicare+Choice at a slower rate than in previous years doesn't mask the fact that the exodus of plans only exacerbates the problem of lack of pharmaceutical coverage for the elderly.
Managed Care May 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Prescription Drug Talk Cooled Off Faster Than a Texas Thunderstorm Medicare reform -- and especially prescription drug benefits within Medicare -- no longer appears to be the burning issue it once was on Capitol Hill. The culprits: priorities and money...
Managed Care March 2002	How Medicare beneficiaries spend money on drugs The Kaiser Family Foundation notes that Medicare beneficiaries account for 14 percent of the U.S. population, but for 43 percent of the nation's spending on prescription drugs. Thirteen percent of beneficiaries had to pay $2,000 or more out of pocket in 2001...
Managed Care April 2007	Comparing Congressional Health Care Proposals A review of health care reform bills proposed by Congress shows that many of them would cover more uninsured Americans than the current administration proposal.
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Restructuring Medicare Is a Riskier Operation than First Thought Hailed as a bipartisan success when passed in late June, two Medicare reform bills are losing some of their luster as they face closer scrutiny by a conference committee made up of members of both chambers charged with reconciling the legislation this fall.
Knowledge@Wharton	Major Health Care Reform Under President Bush Remains Elusive Three of the chief health-care challenges facing the United States are: finding a way to provide coverage for the millions of uninsured, reforming Medicare, and setting up a prescription-drug plan for the elderly. The White House is likely to make headway on only the third of these in the next two years.
Managed Care September 2004	Bush Officials Seek Bounce From Medicare Reform Law Unfortunately for Bush, a recent survey says that most Medicare recipients who plan to let this issue influence their vote plan to cast those votes for Sen. John Kerry.
Salon.com September 8, 2000 Alan Berlow	Prescription politics What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans?
Managed Care March 2001	Bush: Medicare Drug Benefit Tied To Overall Reform Working quickly, President Bush has drafted the first half of his prescription drug plan for Medicare and sent it to Congress...
Managed Care August 2002	24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid Twenty-four states may gamble that providing a prescription drug program to low-income elderly who do not qualify for Medicaid could save them money in the long run.
Managed Care March 2001 Bob Carlson	State Experiences Suggests Thompson, Bush a Tough Team People who know George W. Bush and Tommy Thompson best predict that between them, these former governors will get a patients-rights bill through Congress and make the federal health care bureaucracy work better...
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Howard Dean, MD, Sees Universal Coverage as a Realistic Goal The former Vermont governor at first greeted managed care with good will. Now, however, he thinks it is shortsighted in its dealing with doctors. Unlike President Bush, he wouldn't call on it to rescue Medicare.
CRM September 1, 2004	The Pulse: Our main concern regarding customer data is... Pie chart showing responses to a survey about concerns over customer data.
BusinessWeek July 2, 2009 Sasse & Weems	Health-Care Reform: The Rush to Pass a Bad Bill The proposed laws making their way through Congress fail to answer hard, real-life questions about cost and care
Managed Care October 2002	Though M+C Erosion Slows, Reimbursement Still an Issue The exodus of health plans from Medicare+Choice will moderate somewhat next year, offering hope that the struggling system can make a comeback.
Managed Care December 2002	Drug-discount program's effectiveness hindered by lack of use California offers a prescription drug discount program that allows Medicare beneficiaries to get discounts just by showing their Medicare cards to pharmacists. Unfortunately, a majority of those eligible -- both those with and without drug coverage -- have never heard of the program.
Managed Care October 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died As a whole, the plan unceremoniously crashed and burned. But it still frames state and national debate about health policy, thus affecting the evolution of managed care...
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Michael P. Cecil	Will Medicare Negotiate With Drug Companies? One of the bedrock principles of our economic system is that those buying more of a product receive a discount. Wouldn't empowering Medicare to save taxpayers' money be widely embraced as a great idea? But how would pharma investors see it?
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010	The Climate-Change Casualty List The incoming class of House and Senate Republicans include at least 47 who deny that scientific data prove human activity is warming the planet. Here's how they may complicate the Obama Administration's climate-change agenda.
Managed Care October 2000	'Do Something,' Voters Say, But Just What, They're Not Sure Three health care issues have become important in the presidential campaign, but few people understand the major parties' positions on those issues -- and fewer still have any stomach for real change...
Knowledge@Wharton	Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors Faces Uncertain Future The discussion about adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare will be put on hold...
Managed Care March 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Managed Care Again Seen on Capitol Hill As Ripe for Reform Of the many health care issues circulating in the nation's capital, managed care reform is back as the biggest of them all...
Salon.com August 31, 2000 Alan Berlow	Bitter pills Pharmaceutical companies are apoplectic over Gore's prescription drug pricing proposal
Managed Care August 2000	Competing Bills Put Drug Benefit In Medicare Analysts say chances of a Medicare drug benefit passing the Senate are slim. The Senate began debate on competing bills after the House narrowly passed a Republican-backed prescription benefit proposal.
Managed Care July 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Congress Asked To Take Action As HMOs Flee Managed Medicare Thanks mainly to the increasing cost of providing a prescription drug benefit, HMOs are exiting Medicare+Choice, the system that was supposed to manage the health of the nation's senior citizens, in droves. Only an act of Congress can save Medicare+Choice, but is seems doubtful that will happen.
Managed Care November 1999	Medicare Reform Dead for Now On Capitol Hill
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn	Medicare: Change is Coming This is a great time to get together with clients over 65 who will be affected by health care changes and go over their Medicare coverage. At the same time, you can see what other areas of financial planning are on their mind.
Searcher October 2010 Stephanie C. Ardito	The Medical Digital: U.S. Healthcare Reform: A Follow-Up For those interested in serious, scholarly research regarding the historical progress of U.S. healthcare reform, this column and my prior column might be a good pairing for neutral sources.
Managed Care October 2001	Washington's Focus on Terrorism Jeopardizes Quick Health Care Reform Though President Bush has pledged to be a faithful steward of the country's business while directing the war against terrorism, nobody is predicting that what had been pressing health care issues before Sept. 11 will now be dispatched swiftly...
Managed Care September 2000	Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion...
Managed Care March 2001	Privacy Up, Liability Down In State Houses This Year Privacy proposals will be one of the most prevalent -- though not the most hotly debated -- issues related to health coverage in state houses this year, according to a survey by the Health Insurance Association of America...
Managed Care August 2001	Prescription Plan For Medicare Faces Lawsuit President Bush's plan to give prescription discounts to Medicare beneficiaries has created quite a storm...
Managed Care December 2003 John A. Marcille	Will a Gift From Congress Rebuild Public Confidence? Medicare reform is another way of digging out from under the PR muck. Make it work, make it better than it was before and even the industry's harshest critics will have to admit that managed care does good while it does well. Failure is not an option.
Managed Care May 2002	Drug Companies Unveil Their Plan For Discount Card In the absence of any congressional action on a pharmacy benefit in Medicare, seven pharmaceutical companies have teamed up to offer a drug discount card that many call a vital first step in shoring up Medicare coverage
Managed Care March 2002	M+C Enrollees Bound to Their Choice Until June A lock-in mechanism for Medicare+Choice that kicked in Jan. 1 narrows the period during which enrollees can switch from health plan to health plan...
Searcher October 2011 Stephanie C. Ardito	The Medical Digital: Navigating the Medicare Maze Since entitlement programs are the chief governmental programs under fire, I decided to revisit the healthcare bills passed back in March (H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act).
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler	Part D Under Attack Congressional leaders ready campaign to curb Medicare drug plans.
Managed Care November 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk...
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Jill Wechsler	New Ballgame in Washington Republican gains in Congress create uncertainty for health reform, drug regulation, and biomedical research
Entrepreneur March 2004 Joshua Kurlantzick	Health of a Nation The debate rages on about the cure for America's rising health insurance costs. But while everyone agrees that health insurance costs are skyrocketing, there is little agreement about the best ways to make health care more affordable for small employers.
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 Anna Edney	The Doctors in the House Have an Agenda Republican physician-lawmakers want to dismantle a Medicare cost-cutting board that could hit doctors in their wallets.
Managed Care May 2005	Covering the Uninsured Seen as Legislative Priority Opinion leaders say Congress should also act to improve quality and safety, and ensure Medicare solvency.