21.   A political issue is the biggest cloud over the industry, and one of the keys there is the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

22.   A Republican plan to provide prescription drug benefits to the elderly through private insurers is drawing a skeptical reaction from many health policy experts.

23.   A slight improvement in prescription drug benefits is the only change likely, he said.

24.   A voluntary prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

25.   Aaron of the Brookings Institution said the pressure to add prescription benefits to Medicare would increase as more and better drugs became available from pharmaceutical companies.

26.   Add a prescription drug benefit.

27.   Advocates who support new prescription drug benefits have reacted angrily to the Flo advertisements.

28.   Adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare could deflate the pressure to make necessary reforms to the program, a Senate panel was warned Tuesday.

29.   Al Gore is taking on the big drug companies to pass a real prescription drug benefit that covers all seniors.

30.   Almost all large group health plans offer prescription drug benefits, but about two-thirds of them exclude contraceptives, treating them as an optional expense.