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The HMO pullouts seemed so unexpected because until recently HMOs were pushing to expand their Medicare business.
Although future Medicare costs are expected to consume a growing share of the federal budget and the economy, pressure is mounting to expand Medicare's benefit package to cover prescription drugs, which will add billions to Medicare program costs.
When OPEC met at the end of last month and decided to expand its production quota by 2.5 million barrels a day, the announcement was front-page news, but the contrast with OPEC meetings of two decades ago could not have been sharper.
And the Wall Street Journal reports that General Motors and DaimlerChrysler are offering to expand job-security protections to UAW members to the point where many (those with 10 years on the job already) would have lifetime job security against outsourcing or job streamlining.
Aurangzeb streamlined the lax administration of his predecessors, but he almost bankrupted the realm with his campaigns to expand the empire down to the south, and his battles against rebels in the north.