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Managed Care August 2004	State Mandates Promote Contraceptive Coverage A study shows that employer-based health plans are much more likely to cover contraception than they were 10 years ago and that state laws mandating coverage have played a role in that growth.
Managed Care May 2002	House Weighs Giving Parity To Mental Health Mental health parity has resurfaced as a legislative initiative. A bill would require that insurers' level of mental health coverage be on a par with physical health coverage
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...
Managed Care January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
Information Today April 21, 2011 George H. Pike	House and Senate Propose Online Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Legislation The face of online privacy could change dramatically if legislation recently introduced in Congress becomes law.
Managed Care September 2000	Three New England States Form Drug-Buying Cooperative Now that the governors of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have agreed to form a prescription drug-buying cooperative, the hard work of fleshing out the plan begins...
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...
Investment Advisor April 2010 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Implementing Healthcare NAIC is closely watching the reform debate to see how it will affect insurers and insured.
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 November 2007	Patient Advocates Want Part D Changes A Medicare-administered drug benefit would be more affordable and comprehensive than the current private insurance-run drug benefit, say patient advocate groups.
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 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 October 2004	Medical, Prescription Drug Cost Rates to Drop in 2005 The 2005 Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey predicts that increases for prescription drug coverage will decelerate in 2005, but still remain significantly above general inflation and wage increases.
Salon.com September 8, 2000 Alan Berlow	Prescription politics What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans?
Managed Care May 2007 John Carroll	Mental Health Parity Gets Closer to Reality Consensus seems to be building over a Senate bill that is acceptable to some health plans and employers.
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.
Entrepreneur January 2007 Jacquelyn Lynn	Extra Cushion If you get sued, will your current liability coverage be sufficient? For most growing businesses, the answer is probably no, but increasing your liability limits can be costly.
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.
InternetNews January 20, 2010	Microsoft: U.S. Must Weigh In on Cloud Computing Effort looks to encourage revised laws and industry and privacy protections as cloud computing takes off.
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...
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.
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.
Salon.com August 31, 2000 Alan Berlow	Bitter pills Pharmaceutical companies are apoplectic over Gore's prescription drug pricing proposal
Managed Care June 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Many jobs available to young adults pay little... Prescription medications are getting more difficult to afford...
Managed Care February 2001	Rate of uninsured falls, but underlying factors remain shaky The percentage of uninsured Americans fell from 1998 to 1999, for the first time in a decade. But, according to a study prepared by the Health Insurance Association of America, the underlying factors affecting coverage have not changed -- and that could mean the decline is just an illusion...
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler	Challenge and Challenges Expanded healthcare coverage also fits the goals of pharma manufacturers.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Brian Orelli	Winners and Losers in Universal Health Care Here's a look at the companies that stand to win or lose if Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected -- and gets her three-pronged health-care reform plan through Congress.
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 April 2002	How Much Of a Discount Do Cards Offer? Pharmaceutical and chain drug store industry insiders say that the Bush administration's push to provide prescription drugs to the low-income elderly lacks important ingredients: details and money...
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Don't Fall Into the Doughnut Hole Medicare Part D provides valuable benefits for seniors. However, because the doughnut hole is a gap in coverage by prescription-drug plans, seniors must be prepared to deal with the costs associated with it.
Managed Care December 2007	Insurers Offer More Coverage to Fill Part D Gap Filling the gap in coverage in which the enrollee pays 100% of total drug costs before catastrophic coverage begins will be a significant issue that stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug plans face in 2008.
Managed Care September 2007	Ninety Percent of Adults Eligible For Medicare Have Drug Coverage A study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research finds that 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to more than 75 percent who were covered in 2004.
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?
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...
Managed Care October 2005	Rx Trend Moderates While PPO Costs Increase Trends for prescription drug coverage will slow down in 2006 to levels that are closer to those of medical coverage, according to a survey.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler	Part D Under Attack Congressional leaders ready campaign to curb Medicare drug plans.
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	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 April 2000	More consumers have choice of health plans, but is it enough to make HMOs responsive? Competition benefits consumers, the theory goes. Policy makers who seek to alter market forces in health care should keep this corollary of capitalism in mind, says the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based think tank....
Managed Care February 2007	Managed Care Outlook Coverage for children leads policy debate.
InternetNews October 13, 2004 Roy Mark	Report: The Internet and Drugs Don't Mix It seems an increasing number of Americans are researching drugs online, but safety fears chill buying.
Managed Care October 2003	Mental Health Coverage Woes Not All in Mind The authors of a new study find that although coverage for mental healt is now widespread among those with insurance, parity laws have not really put access to mental health services on a par with access to other services, thanks to continued limits on outpatient and inpatient visits.
PC World February 20, 2001 Jennifer O'Neill	Congress Navigates a Flood of Net Privacy Bills Lawmakers, industry juggle e-commerce and consumer concerns in review of longtime (and new) proposals...
Managed Care June 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Health Plans, Insurers Unsure About Likely Effect of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Insurers and financial institutions are flooding customers' mailboxes about their rights to protect medical and financial information under what's better known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. But just how GLB will affect health plans isn't totally clear...
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Tim Beyers	Foolish Advice on Business Liability Insurance Think your business won't get sued? Think again. Whatever the root cause, lawsuits seem to be rising. Here are three questions business owners need to ask themselves before buying liability insurance.
Salon.com January 20, 2000 Dena Bunis	The Harry and Louise show The fictional couple who appeared in anti-Clinton ads are now in a new campaign.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Umbrella Insurance for Rainy Days Wherever your personal liability coverage ends, umbrella insurance coverage is designed to pick up the slack.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Robert J. Barro	Medicare: Forget the Drug Benefit, and Face Up to Real Reforms Washington seems poised to make a major error on Medicare. The program's costs are out of control, and the situation will deteriorate further as the population ages. We should be considering basic changes to the structure of the health-care market.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2005 Brian Gorman	Saying No to Drugs Britain's policy of restricting drug access based on cost-benefit analyses should be on the radar screen of pharmaceutical investors.