Word: steelman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors saw ways to protect their incomes from corporate budget cutters. One tactic: scheduling more frequent office visits for patients. Physicians also began to sell prescription drugs as a profitable sideline. In all, nonhospital expenditures grew last year by 10%. Says Deborah Steelman, a health-care analyst for Epstein Becker & Green, a Washington-based law firm: "We squeezed on one end of the system, and it came out on the other...