11.   In recent years, Medicare has slowly expanded to encompass a small but growing number of preventive health care services.

12.   In proposing coverage of prescription drugs and improved coverage of preventive health care services, Clinton said he was trying to modernize Medicare.

13.   Many blacks are poor and lack access not only to health care information and preventive services in general, but even to necessary treatment once they fall ill.

14.   Most health plans still seem to be paying little more than lip service to preventive services.

15.   One of the few positives of managed care cited was the increased use of preventive services by patients.

16.   Or, more precisely, how soon private insurers should be required to make preventive services for children a standard benefit in any health policy they sell.

17.   Preventive services, such as annual physicals and prenatal care, have no copayment.

18.   Scoppetta conceded that, despite two years having elapsed since the city first asked agencies to apply for new preventive services contracts, none had been awarded.

19.   She said that quality-improvement efforts within Kaiser, including a new emphasis on preventive services, appear to be gaining notice from members.

20.   The group placed the family in its preventive services program, assigning a social worker, Isa Andrjcisk, to the case.