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What Now for Health Care? Doctors, health care executives and employers will converge in Los Angeles this week to discuss ways to get a grip on the growing prevalence of managed health care. But discussions at the fourth annual West Managed Health Care Congress are likely to be much different than those of a year ago. “Last year, the issues were, ‘What are Bill and Hillary (Clinton) going to do to us?” says Dr. Victor S. Dorodny of Pasadena, who heads the California chapter of the National Assn. of Managed Care Physicians. “We were looking at the health reform proposals, trying to figure out how they would work . . . and what could we do to stall or undermine them.” More than 1,000 health care professionals are expected at this week’s conference, which runs today through Wednesday at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.