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- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: Open Secrets
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 12
- NATION
- Open Secrets
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- <body>
- <p>The Administration gives some major hints on its health-care
- reform plans
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- <p> Every major initiative of The Clinton White House is preceded
- by a torrent of leaks testing public reaction. The health-care
- reform program is being billed as the most fundamental change in
- domestic policy since the Social Security Act of 1935. So the
- leaks are becoming a flood. Examples: the Administration wants
- to ensure generous coverage for mental illness, and it is
- considering price controls to hold down the costs of extending
- medical coverage to those not now insured. Options include a
- short-term freeze on prices charged by doctors, hospitals,
- laboratories and nursing homes, and a cap on insurance-premium
- increases. In addition, Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the
- health-care task force, told members of Congress that a tax
- might be imposed on benefits provided by employers to workers
- in excess of some basic package--a proposal she had earlier
- disavowed. Finally, the Administration accepts the idea of
- rationing health services. It approved an Oregon plan to extend
- Medicaid to those not now getting it, recouping the cost by no
- longer reimbursing treatment for conditions that clear up by
- themselves (e.g., the common cold) or that afflict only a few
- people and involve heavy expense for a doubtful outcome--for
- example, some liver transplants.
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- </body>
- </article>
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