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adc_health.article_title[0] = 'Herald Tribune Ltr. to the Editor: Viable Solutions to Health Costs' ;
adc_health.article_date[0] = 1;
adc_health.article_url[0] = 'http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040208/OPINION/402080440/1029';
adc_health.article_summary[0] = 'The viewpoint expressed in a recent editorial on medical savings accounts is, sadly, typical of other critics' views of market-oriented solutions to health care....';
adc_health.article_title[1] = 'Knox News: Shelby: New Health Savings Accounts Worth a Look' ;
adc_health.article_date[1] = 1;
adc_health.article_url[1] = 'http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/business/article/0,1406,KNS_376_2637721,00.html';
adc_health.article_summary[1] = 'This January, many employers and employees got hit with "sticker shock" when they learned the new amount of their health-care insurance premiums....';
adc_health.article_title[2] = 'NYT: Frist Expects Congress to Try to Expand Health Coverage' ;
adc_health.article_date[2] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[2] = 'http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/02/07/politics/07HEAL.html&tntemail0';
adc_health.article_summary[2] = 'WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said on Friday that "it is impossible" to have all Americans covered by health insurance, but he predicted that Congress would take incremental steps to expand coverage this year....';
adc_health.article_title[3] = 'NYT: Cigna Will Cut 3,000 Jobs; Drop in Policyholders Is Cited' ;
adc_health.article_date[3] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[3] = 'http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/02/07/business/07cigna.html&tntemail0';
adc_health.article_summary[3] = 'The Cigna Corporation said yesterday that it would cut about 9 percent of its work force, or 3,000 jobs, after the ranks of its health care policyholders fell sharply in the fourth quarter of last year. The announcement sent its shares tumbling....';
adc_health.article_title[4] = 'WT: Goldberg: The New Iron Law in Heatlh Care Politics' ;
adc_health.article_date[4] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[4] = 'http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040204-084711-7189r.htm';
adc_health.article_summary[4] = 'Here's a new iron law of American politics. Liberals define compassion solely in terms of how much government spends and only if government spends the money, while conservatives define it in terms of how and whether government gives people the choices and...';
adc_health.article_title[5] = 'Jacksonville Bus. Journal: Bush Brothers Help Create HSA Buzz' ;
adc_health.article_date[5] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[5] = 'http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2004/02/02/story5.html';
adc_health.article_summary[5] = 'Bush twice mentioned health savings accounts in the address. His brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, announced this week funding to promote them in Florida to help ease the burden of people struggling to pay for health care....';
adc_health.article_title[6] = 'Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram: A Healthy Option' ;
adc_health.article_date[6] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[6] = 'http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/7890177.htm';
adc_health.article_summary[6] = 'Uncle Sam has a new way to pay for your kid's braces, your spouse's corrective eye surgery, your over-the-counter drugs and your health insurance deductibles -- tax-free....';
adc_health.article_title[7] = 'IT Business: Accidental Medical Deaths Kill Thousands' ;
adc_health.article_date[7] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[7] = 'http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=54734';
adc_health.article_summary[7] = 'TORONTO -- The next time nurses go on strike, it might not be for the traditional demands of better pay or improved working conditions but the lack of an electronic health record, panelists told a health-care symposium at George Brown College this week....';
adc_health.article_title[8] = 'The Sun Times: Jackson: Health Savings Account Benefits' ;
adc_health.article_date[8] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[8] = 'http://www.thesuntimes.com/articles/2004/02/06/news/news11.txt';
adc_health.article_summary[8] = 'Since writing my last column on Health Savings Accounts (HSA), it is apparent that all of us need to be better informed....';
adc_health.article_title[9] = 'AAHP-HIAA: Many Companies Planning on Offering HSAs' ;
adc_health.article_date[9] = 0;
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adc_health.article_summary[9] = '(Washington, DC) – AAHP-HIAA today released a survey of member companies participating in the Medicare Advantage program showing that the new 2004 funding rates released two weeks ago by CMS will result in more affordable, enhanced coverage for Medicare A...';
adc_health.article_title[10] = 'Naple Daily News: Bush Budget to Boost HSAs' ;
adc_health.article_date[10] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[10] = 'http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/business/article/0,2071,NPDN_14901_2627050,00.html';
adc_health.article_summary[10] = 'A separate proposal calls for a tax incentive to boost the number of people with health savings accounts, or HSAs, that were passed as part of the Medicare drug-benefit legislation. The accounts already allow people with high-deductible health-insurance p...';
adc_health.article_title[11] = 'CBC: Alberta Mulls Medical Savings Accounts?' ;
adc_health.article_date[11] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[11] = 'http://calgary.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ed_graydon20040204';
adc_health.article_summary[11] = 'Edmonton - Premier Ralph Klein says he will release a controversial report on health care reform, even though his minister of health said it would be kept from the public indefinitely....';
adc_health.article_title[12] = 'SF Chronicle: Treasury Says HSAs to Cost $16 Billion' ;
adc_health.article_date[12] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[12] = 'http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/02/04/financial1641EST0242.DTL';
adc_health.article_summary[12] = 'One of two Senate Democrats who helped write the new Medicare prescription drug law said Wednesday the Bush administration withheld information about the law's estimated cost at key moments in negotiations last year....';
adc_health.article_title[13] = 'NYT: Hospital Industry is in 'Crisis,' Sell Stock Advisors say' ;
adc_health.article_date[13] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[13] = 'http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/02/05/business/05place.html&tntemail0';
adc_health.article_summary[13] = 'JUST how profitable a business is running a chain of hospitals? Tenet Healthcare, the onetime darling of the industry, once promised earnings that would increase by 20 percent or more a year....';
adc_health.article_title[14] = 'LA Times: Medicare HMOS Cut Premiums, Add Benefits' ;
adc_health.article_date[14] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[14] = 'http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-health3feb03,1,3211205.story?coll=la-home-business';
adc_health.article_summary[14] = 'Several of California's largest health insurers said Monday that they were slashing premiums and increasing benefits for seniors in Medicare HMOs, reversing a four-year industrywide retreat from the federal program....';
adc_health.article_title[15] = 'West Central Tribune: HSAs Will Help Everyone Lower Costs' ;
adc_health.article_date[15] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[15] = 'http://www.wctrib.com/Main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=20542';
adc_health.article_summary[15] = 'WILLMAR -- When the University of Minnesota at Morris surveyed regional employers last year about the cost and availability of health insurance, the results were disturbing....';
adc_health.article_title[16] = 'WH: HSAs Cited as Making American's Lives Better' ;
adc_health.article_date[16] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[16] = 'http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040202-15.html';
adc_health.article_summary[16] = 'Enhancing Consumer Credit Protections President Bush proposed and signed into law the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 to ensure that citizens are treated fairly when they apply for credit....';
adc_health.article_title[17] = 'NYT: NY Hospitals Agree to Lower Fees for the Uninsured' ;
adc_health.article_date[17] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[17] = 'http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/02/03/nyregion/03patients.html&tntemail0';
adc_health.article_summary[17] = 'New York's hospitals have pledged to stop charging their highest prices to the uninsured patients who are often least able to pay and to end collection tactics like foreclosing on people's homes, under a new policy adopted by a hospital trade group....';
adc_health.article_title[18] = 'Tech Central Station: Milton Friedman & Rx Reimportation' ;
adc_health.article_date[18] = 0;
adc_health.article_url[18] = 'http://www.techcentralstation.com/020204D.html';
adc_health.article_summary[18] = 'Friedman: My initial reaction when I first was asked this question was to say yes. But the more I've thought about it, the more I've come to the belief that it's not an issue of free trade at all, and that the right answer is not re-importation....';
adc_health.article_title[19] = 'Charleston Post: Candidates propose health-care remedies' ;
adc_health.article_date[19] = 0;
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adc_health.article_summary[19] = 'A lot of South Carolinians going to the polls Tuesday will be thinking about their health. A growing number of people in the state, and the country, are feeling the pain of the nation's rising health- care bill, and they're citing it as a top concern when...';
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