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...conservative Senate bill when both went to the House-Senate conference committee to be reconciled. But Clinton's embrace of the Senate plan instantly made it harder to attract support for the Gephardt proposal, which is in competition with a minimalist plan sponsored by the G.O.P. leadership and two bipartisan alternatives, none of which feature employer mandates. Why should House members stick their neck out, they ask, by voting in favor of high employer mandates if the final House-Senate bill is more likely to resemble Mitchell's idea? With that in mind, House leaders postponed the start of their...
...bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George Mitchell's bill, centrist Senators announced plans to introduce a stripped-down, bipartisan bill that would not increase taxes or require that employers pay for workers' insurance. Just yesterday a group of House members introduced an even milder bill that would leave 26 million people uninsured. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says few players in Washington have any clue what might happen...
...indirect effect of his arrival is likely to be a sharper, more partisan, more anti-Republican tone at the White House. Whether that is really what the Clinton presidency needs is questionable. Nevertheless, the change in tone was evident even last week. The President, who had previously talked sweet bipartisan reason and adaptability on health care, lambasted Dole's proposal as "politics as usual" that threw crumbs to the poor, gave insurance companies everything they wanted and did nothing for the middle class. That might seem surprising, since in last year's fight to develop a budget program, Panetta successfully...
...Despite their past differences with Panetta, political advisers such as Begala, James Carville and Mandy Grunwald are likely to gain in strength too with less counterinfluence from Gergen and McLarty (and a possible boost from Hillary Rodham Clinton, who tends to lean their way). All these advisers reject the bipartisan approach that won victories for the Brady Bill and NAFTA in favor of an appeal to the liberal Democratic core constituency. In some cases they would rather have an issue to use against the Republicans than a legislative victory...
With the Senate Finance Committee looming as perhaps the decisive hurdle for a health-care bill, a bipartisan group of committee centrists Friday offered a compromise plan for insurance reforms and for a special commission authorized to recommend further action if 95% of Americans are not covered by 2002. Notably omitted: President Clinton's requirement that employers pay most insurance costs. Earlier in the week, President Clinton vowed not to yield on his goal of universal health coverage...