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Biotech / Medical : PFE (Pfizer) How high will it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (3976)	7/7/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

anthony... thanks for posting the cover story... it is well worth reading, even beyond its redemptive spin on the plainly tightfisted motives behind viagra cost-denying insurers...PFE will enjoy a positive backlash, along with others no doubt. an excerpt...( be careful you wish for may be the moral here): What most folks didn't realize was that if government didn't do it, somebody else would. That somebody turned out to be America's employers, working hand-in-glove with the insurance companies. Today 85% of all insured employees--up from 53% five years ago--have moved out of traditional fee-for-service plans, in which doctors call the shots and insurance companies pay the bills, and into managed-care plans, including health-maintenance organizations, or HMOs. Almost every aspect of medical care provided by HMOs is second guessed--not by the government, not by Hillary, not even by doctors, but by the bean counters. thanks again, randy