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BusinessWeek October 15, 2007 Glen Whitman	Bad Medicine For Health Care Politicians have tried to solve America's health-care woes by enacting an individual mandate - a law requiring every adult to purchase health insurance. Despite its bipartisan support, the individual mandate is bad policy, a vain attempt to command a better result while doing nothing to achieve it.
Managed Care December 2003 John Carroll	Aloha State Never Expected Such a Long Goodbye to Uninsured Three decades after Hawaii was supposed to have put a controversial end to a chronic problem by making employers cover more people, guess what persists?
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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 January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
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 November 2003	Calif. Businesses Vow To Fight Coverage Law A new law that makes employers extend health benefits to about a million uninsured Californians will be watched carefully. Opponents of the law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis two days before the recall vote that ousted him, vow to challenge it in the courts.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 William C. Symonds	Get Used To The Pain Another round of double-digit hikes in health-care costs is in the mail.
Managed Care June 2006 John Carroll	Association Health Bill Fails Despite Senators' Support Patient advocacy groups work overtime to kill legislation that businesses felt would have provided less costly coverage for their employees.
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BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Amy S. Choi	Why Small Biz Is Skittish About Health-Care Reform Despite a charm offensive by Obama, health-care proposals leave entrepreneurs wary
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Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
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Managed Care September 2003 Michael Chiusano	Too Early To Write Obituary For Patients' Bill of Rights Back from obscurity, the Patients' Bill of Rights is poised to become an issue in the presidential election -- depending on whom you ask.
Managed Care May 2001 Cyril F. Chang	Covering Risk But Not Risky Behaviors A critical review of the arguments for insurance coverage for smoking-cessation therapies...
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Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
Managed Care September 2006 John Carroll	Revolution in Massachusetts May Spread to Other States Governors and legislators look to borrow whatever health policies they think might work well for their own constituencies.
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