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...setting the prices.' Price controls are not compatible with price competition." In Ellwood's system, costs would be controlled by competition among health-care suppliers to serve the members of the large pools of consumers. He believes that such incentives would eliminate the need for price controls. But Stuart Altman of Brandeis University, a top Clinton health-care adviser, thinks that the two mechanisms can work together. Challenged during a meeting of the Clinton health-care brain trust last week, Altman dismissed criticism of the apparent conflict: "I don't think Congress is going to give us the keys...
...eerie persistence of a half-heard spell. But even his eccentricity is so wide- ranging, so continually renewing and surprising, that it probably isn't fair to call it typical. Anyone who expects the morose, slightly spacy voluptuary who sang, most famously, on the sound track of Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- the Cohen who sounded like Villon with frostbite -- is in for a mighty shock encountering The Future...
...Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, 71, is a business-friendly millionaire who chairs the powerful Finance Committee. California Congressman Leon Panetta, 54, named as Clinton's Budget Director, commands high regard from his peers for his work as chairman of the House Budget Committee. Bentsen's deputy will be Roger Altman, 47, who served at Treasury under President Carter. Altman, an investment banker like Rubin, knows financiers from New York to Tokyo...
...Committee, was the capstone as Treasury Secretary. Accenting his desire to work with Congress, Clinton tapped Leon Panetta, who chairs the House Budget Committee, as OMB director. Wall Street was represented by Robert Rubin as the head of the new National Economic Council in the White House, and Roger Altman, a Clinton college classmate, as Bentsen's deputy. Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, will be Panetta's deputy. The solid choices signaled Clinton's concern with the deficit and need to reassure business...
Clinton's demeanor on Thursday was a bit stiff, perhaps because those first nominees (save Altman) represented a generation older than his own. How different his mood on Friday, when he was surrounded by appointees whom he genuinely enjoys and who fit his vow of "a new generation of leaders." Harvard political economist Robert Reich, a Rhodes scholar with Clinton, will be Secretary of Labor. Health and Human Services went to Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and a friend of Hillary Clinton's. Another woman becomes chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Laura D'Andrea Tyson...