Drug makers now share the bottom of the rankings with oil, managed care and tobacco companies.
Proposals to increase revenue included renegotiating managed care and union contracts and improving billing practices.
Actually, it's no wonder he'd rather talk about managed care and saving Social Security.
Medicare officials have historically professed to be neutral between managed care and the original fee-for-service program.
Many Republicans wondered how many times the Senate must vote on gun control, managed care and the minimum wage.
"Employees are suspicious and mistrustful of managed care and the health insurance industry," said Larry Gelb, president of CareCounsel.
(Today alone, the vice president blasted Mr. Bush's positions on the census, managed care and gun control).
"The rhetoric around managed care and H.M.O.'s is sort of like the rhetoric around Congress," Mr. Stover said.
The package contains many sound reforms, including greater use of managed care and other forms of care coordination.
Doctors see standardised treatment as a first step towards managed care and, therefore, as a threat to their incomes.
With managed care and the development of new medications, the trend has been away from spending months, even years, exploring problems of the past.
