11.   It consists of eight members, seven actuaries and one health economist.

12.   It would also fulfill the predictions of health economists who have long argued that the city has too many hospital beds.

13.   Mark B. McClellan, a health economist on the White House staff, met Tuesday with about a dozen House Republicans to seek their support.

14.   Medications play such a big role in modern medicine, health economists say, that some health plans are now paying more for pharmaceuticals than for hospital visits.

15.   Most health economists agree that the tax advantage leads workers to purchase inefficiently generous insurance plans, and therefore to over-consume medical care.

16.   No health economists believed that the poor had more health problems than the rich mainly because it was hard for them to see doctors.

17.   Raising a warning for the health-care industry, some leading providers of temporary nursing help are joining health economists in predicting a national shortage of qualified nurses.

18.   Reinhardt, the Princeton health economist, says that the health insurance industry has never had an incentive to make coverage simple.

19.   Several health economists have warned that some of these minor changes could cause more problems.

20.   Some health economists say the added costs will make consumers more cautious about medical spending.