Cost Cutters: Medicare is reducing reimbursement for cancer drugs, forcing some oncologists to cut their services. Notes one oncologist:

'We provided a Nordstrom level of care that was funded by these outrageous drug markups,' Dr. Eisenberg said. 'Now, reimbursements are going down to Kmart levels, and we can't provide the level of service our patients have become accustomed to.'

The problem is, the patients keep expecting Nordstrom service at Kmart prices.