1.   Privately financed and provided group medical plans are assuming greater importance.

2.   The most immediate and obvious impact on group medical plans will be an increased cost to employers to provide those plans.

3.   And since they are paid in cash, job by job, they usually are not part of any group health insurance plan.

4.   -- Prohibit insurers from declining to cover certain employees in a group health plan.

5.   A law enacted last year prevents insurers from using genetic information to deny coverage to people covered under group plans.

6.   A U.N. Security Council resolution approved last September calls for an end to any political dialogue with the Serbs until they accept the contact group plan in full.

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

8.   Broadening the attack on Clinton, a coalition of conservative groups plans on Wednesday to unveil an advertising campaign featuring women complaining about their tax burdens.

9.   But Democrats charge that the new definition of group plan could extend beyond that.

10.   But asked if this was a contact group plan or an American plan, a senior American official said without hesitation that it was American.