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This article reports on the health care coverage promised to retirees in most U.S. cities and states. New York City, for example, currently provides free health insurance to its retirees, their spouses and dependent children. The state has promised to pay, depending on the date of hire, 90 to 100 percent of the cost of individual retirees, and 82 to 86 percent for retiree families.

Deals with the insurance coverage for the families of victims of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

Reports on plans of hospitals in the New York City metropolitan area to join with three nonprofit health insurance companies to develop a unified electronic information system for patient records. Objectives and features of the proposed system.

Focuses on four women nurses who opened a primary health care practice in New York City. What they treat and diagnose; How such a medical practice is part of a trend, according to health care executives; Support from private insurers and the health care industry; Vehement opposition from the medical establishment and many doctors.