Many doctors and health-care experts say free vaccine will not solve the country's immunization problem.

The first hour will feature questions from an audience of teen-agers to a panel of parents and health-care experts.

Indeed, their profit margins have held up reasonably well, health-care experts say.

Many health-care experts are deeply concerned about the chaos that could result if each hospital interprets the Federal guidelines differently.

The commission includes a wide range of health-care experts.

But some health-care experts say that doctors cannot easily reject Medicare patients because the growing number of older people are the medical profession's main clients.

But so far, a rush to monitor and regulate prices has been the policy's most conspicuous new twist, health-care experts say.

In addition, health-care experts say the complicated bills make it virtually impossible for patients to compare costs at hospitals.

Many work in small towns that lack a doctor, making them the primary health-care expert for miles around.

But health-care experts said the effects of the new law on insurance policies were not at all clear.