71.   To save money, managed care plans often dictate which doctors patients can see, limit access to costly tests and demand shorter hospital stays.

72.   To better control costs, employers are flocking to managed care, which limits patients to certain doctors and hospitals or penalizes them when they choose their own providers.

73.   Under managed care, health plans monitor services provided to patients to ensure they are medically necessary.

74.   Under managed care, Medicaid patients will go to the doctors in their plan, rather than seeking out any doctor who accepts Medicaid.

75.   Under the confidentiality law, the HMO group believes, insurers cannot properly manage care.

76.   Two California managed care companies announced Tuesday they will begin offering alternative medicine services to HMO enrollees in what analysts say is a trend led by consumer demand.

77.   We used to have health care, but now we have managed care.

78.   What will become clear in the weeks to come is how eager the two sides are to work together on tough issues, like prescription drugs and managed care.

79.   Whatever their differences, both institutions agree that Medicaid managed care is the key to their survival.

80.   While businesses praise managed care for reducing their growing health costs, consumers and doctors complain that insurers have used it to deny access to needed care.