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To: el paradisio who wrote (49698)	5/7/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Clinton to AG ...... read my LIPS ........ THERE IS NO INFLATION nytimes.com Employers' health care expenses were a big factor in the 4.3 percent rise in labor costs in the year ended in March, the biggest increase since the early 1990's. Drug expenditures will double in five years to $200 billion and rise to $300 billion by 2010 if the current pace continues, said C. Daniel Mullins, a pharmaceutical economist at the University of Maryland. ........... G.M. spent $762 million on drugs in its self-insured plans last year, up nearly 13 percent from 1998. The company recently hired a doctor of pharmacy to work with the P.B.M. to try to tame these costs.