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...Americans. It would be paid for by higher cigarette taxes and mandated employer contributions. Because the bill has been criticized as being too sweeping and too costly, some congressional Democrats have been working to forge a compromise version of the President's proposal that would take into account elements of rival plans. An alternative that is palatable to many conservatives, proposed by House Democrat Jim Cooper of Tennessee, would rely on improved market competition through voluntary purchasing cooperatives. While employers would be required to make group health insurance available to their workers under Cooper's plan, they would...
...then, to level premiums without overburdening the healthy with the costs of the infirm? Some reformers want to set rates by gender or age, while others want to focus on life-style or income disparities. Clinton's own favored variation is along geographic lines, to account for the variation of health costs in different locales. Like many of the President's health proposals, this idea draws on experiments at the state level. Last year New York State homogenized premiums, permitting rates to vary only along an upstate-downstate divide...
Culture: Novelist Reynolds Price discusses his new book, an account of his 10- year struggle with spinal cancer...
...emerge from what might be called his judicial personality, composed of subtle valences of thought on a thousand topics, in a room where everyone knows the issues and everyone has opinions. A freshman not up to speed on most of those issues will project a sketchy profile. This may account for the different impressions made by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas, the court's newest arrivals. The extroversion of Ginsburg, an enthusiastic dancer at parties, has been heartily reflected in her courtroom demeanor -- sometimes to the annoyance of her colleagues. On her first day on the bench last October...
...Little, Brown. In it the principal author, Pavel Sudoplatov, charged that prominent scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, had knowingly made atomic secrets available to Soviet agents. Since publication of the book, many nuclear physicists and historians have raised serious questions about Sudoplatov's account. Our story on the controversy begins on page...