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...prevail. Kaiser's decision on Viagra is a case in point. From the moment the impotence pill was approved, Kaiser's top executives knew they had a high-visibility issue on their hands. They turned it over to a committee of 40 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other experts, who took the position that Viagra is not, strictly speaking, a medical necessity. Then the committee calculated the cost of providing Viagra to Kaiser's members at $100 million a year, significantly dwarfing, for example, the HMO's $59 million budget for all its antiviral medications, including HIV drugs. Rather than increase...
...took a while for G.O.P. leaders to warm up to a campaign that not only violates the party's core aversion to Big Government fixes but also alienates the business interests that are the party's political and financial lifeblood. Senate majority leader Trent Lott and whip Don Nickles put out the word last October that their party was on the side of the insurers, and it was time to strike back. "The message we are getting from House and Senate leadership is that we are in a war, and need to start fighting like...
Boeing was phasing in these and other reforms when aircraft orders, which had been no-shows at the start of the decade, suddenly arrived in droves. With cash-rich economies fueling air travel in the U.S. and Asia, carriers took off on a buying binge. Boeing suddenly faced the task of transforming the way it builds planes while furiously ramping up production of new jets. "I've described it as trying to change the tire on my car while going 60 miles an hour," says Condit...
...fact is that airlines have grown skillful at extracting deep discounts from Boeing and Airbus by holding out huge contracts and bargaining hard on terms. In its latest solicitation, British Airways took bids from Boeing and Airbus for 100 jets with a total value of some $3.8 billion. British Airways has never bought a plane from Airbus, and Boeing doesn't want the streak to end. So the jetmakers have been battling over everything from prices to innovative leasing deals that British Airways wants on highly favorable terms...
...pain would get so bad that Sylvia Zebroski, 51, of Stamford, Conn., couldn't sleep. Aspirin worked for a while, but then she developed stabbing pains in her stomach. She switched to naproxen, which, like aspirin, is a so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID. Same story. "I took myself off naproxen and went to my doctor in tears," she recalls. He put her on a new experimental drug, and this time, no arthritis pain--and no stomach pain. Says Zebroski: "It's made all the difference in the world...