If cost-takeouts are the only road to profitability, are the insurers prepared to deal with pesky little matters like the public funding of birth control, abortion, home births and c-sections, i.e.

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Even worse from a non-proliferation point of view, is Section 301(c) which prohibits the control of U.S. parts or components if the item is assembled overseas.

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It helps Bristol-Myers Squibb play in the emerging hepatitis C market by giving the company full control of the drug the two firms were developing together.

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The Centers for Disease Control says up to 10, 000 people died from hep-C last year and that, by 2010, the annual death toll will overtake that of HIV.

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