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Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
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Inc. September 2005 Stephanie Clifford	Do I have a choice? Managed competition is a health care model that encourages providers to compete for small and midsize businesses.
Managed Care December 2003	Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured.
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Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
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Managed Care November 2000	Rights Bill Inaction Spurs Clinton To Act Without Congress Health care issues generated political brinkmanship as the 106th Congress skidded toward Election Day -- capped by President Clinton's declaration of a limited series of patient rights regulations following Congress's failure to pass a patient rights bill...
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Managed Care December 2003 Margaret E. O'Kane	NCQA To Look More Closely At Issues Small Employers Care About Why don't small employers consider health care quality information the same way large employers do when making benefits decisions? We asked the president of NCQA.
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Managed Care November 2002 Frank Diamond	Companies Leaning on Workers in Battle Against Pharmacy Costs A new urgency means that tiered formularies and higher copayments will become even more widespread, a recent survey indicates.
Managed Care May 2005 John Carroll	Evaporation of Retiree Benefits May Be Health Plan Opportunity With big companies steadily reducing coverage for retirees, plans need to devise products for this needy population.
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Managed Care October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
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