Advocacy groups advance along cost containment front.

How the Erie Business Coalition for Health Care Cost Containment is progressing in its dealings with a highly traditional provider community to find solutions to the health cost problems of its mostly small employer-members; how the American Dental Association is responding to insurers' and others' encroachments on fee-for-service by promoting self-insured as the most cost-effective employee dental plans. These are follow-ups on stories that appeared previously in HCM.