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Articles in Dec 1996 issue of Business & Health

• Financial facts about treating breast cancer - includes a listing of educational resources - Costing Out Care
  by Marilyn Dix Smith
• Consolidation, capitation under attack - health care issues in several states; includes a related article on how voters in 1996 voted on various local health care issues - State Report
  by Steven Findlay
• Average expectations - basing managed-care on averages gives a wrong message of sheer commercialism to consumers since there is no 'average' employee - Editorial
  by Richard Service
• Growing pains for HMOs - membership in HMOs has grown 16% between 1994 and 1995 but profits have dropped
• Getting ready for Round 3 of federal health reform - possible health coverage expansion in Medicare and Medicaid may be planned by Clinton administration
  by Steven Findlay
• Holding the line on elusive ailments - treating chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, and fibromyalgia; includes comments from injured or ill employees
  by Mark Holoweiko
• This town made wellness a way of life - Wellsburg, W. Va worked with Sterling Drugs' Bayer Div. to study and decrease rate of cardiac arrests in the community
  by Mary Lou Hurley
• Can employers see beyond price? - a survey of the opinions of employers with 20 employees or more, on the quality of health care programs, and the costs - Cover Story
  by Helen Lippman
• Do-it-yourself benefits - flexible - tips to enable a benefits manager to help employees navigate through choices - Benefits Bulletin
  by Robert McCarthy