41.   Driven by double-digit increases in the cost of prescription drugs, health costs have moved off the plateau and started climbing a new mountain.

42.   Economists say that HMOs and other managed-care plans have helped slow the increase in health costs.

43.   Employers were being socked by double-digit percentage increases in health benefits costs.

44.   Even as health costs rise, there are signs workers are pressing for improved contracts -- which is likely to mean higher costs.

45.   Even such large increases do not reflect a probable increase in mental health costs in related to the terrorist attacks.

46.   Events suggest she was right to worry about health costs and the uninsured.

47.   Employers said many managed care companies would have to find new ways to contain health costs.

48.   Former Gov. Robert Ray of Iowa told his colleagues on the panel that new requirements and mandates could increase health costs.

49.   Giuliani has long pushed to privatize or lease city hospitals in an effort to cut health costs and overhaul care for the poor.

50.   He said that overall health costs would be held down by such measures as annual national spending targets and incentives for people to enter managed care networks.