1.   Analysts are fretting that Aetna, like other providers of managed healthcare plans, is having difficulty coping with rising costs and billing systems.

2.   -- approve legislation ensuring Americans in managed health care plans have the right to know all their medical options and can choose their doctors and emergency care.

3.   But GOP leaders have stalled antitobacco legislation, campaign finance reform and new authority for patients in dealing with managed health care plans.

4.   But most Internet drugstores lack the size and clout to negotiate good prices from the managed health care plans that pick up the tab for most of these medications.

5.   Caterpillar would need a managed health care plan, more flexible work hours and the ability to bring on new workers at lower wages.

6.   For now, though, surveys show that sicker people are more dissatisfied with managed plans.

7.   Gov. George Pataki proposed legislation Wednesday that would establish a broad range of protection for patients enrolled in managed health care plans.

8.   His plan for regulating health maintenance organizations would extend a limited right to sue to consumers in managed health care plans regulated by the federal government.

9.   If I am paying for the managed health care plan, I am the consumer buying insurance.

10.   If you have ever experienced snafus with your managed health care plan, you may have wondered what recourse you have.