During yesterday's morning huddle, Joyce M. Albers-Schonberg, a health-care analyst, called in with some bad news.

But many health-care analysts and organizations are concerned that the networks are doing little to control overall health costs and might even reduce the quality of care.

Other health-care analysts were more pessimistic, however, about the prospects for selling many or all of the city's public hospitals.

Especially one who works as a - zzz - health-care analyst.

But a lot of doctors and patients and health-care analysts think that is already too many.

The announcements of slumping pharmaceutical earnings that depressed drug stocks yesterday sent messages to Washington and investors alike, health-care analysts said.

But New York's health-care analysts are encouraged by Minnesota's early success.

Today's Columns Hospital executives and health-care analysts say the long-predicted shakeout in the $200 billion hospital industry is gathering momentum.

And many health-care analysts have observed that in health policy, the details are everything.

G. Steven Burrill, a health-care analyst at Arthur Young, said most of the 1,300 biotechnology firms are still losing money.