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...Harvard's first match on Saturday against Brown, Drosos and Cooper again came up with wins-by-decision in the 177-pound and 190-pound weight classes, respectively...
Aoki won again by decision in the 126-pound division. Junior 167-pounder Bill Forlano also took his opponent by decision. And Cooper continued his hot streak with a 5-3 decision...
...major plans that have been in the news were put forth by President Clinton and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), another Rhodes Scholar but Harvard Law graduate. Other plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans from Hawaii, other states and Canada have been considered. The Clinton and Cooper plans, however, have received the most broad-based support and appear to have the greatest chances of being enacted. But these plans have serious financial side effects that must be considered...
...contrast, the Cooper plan does index the costs of coverage to a family's income. The amount of coverage subsidized (the estimated worth per year of the plan) starts at 100 percent when the family is at or below the poverty level and decreases until the family's income reaches two time the poverty level. Poverty levels differ depending upon how many children are in families, so the plan is effectively indexed to family size as well...
...Cooper plan does have one great flaw. The plan does not encourage those covered by it to work. Taking a higher-paying job could take your family from fully insured to almost uninsured, so there is little incentive to work more. A family can keep earning more until its income rises above the poverty level; at that point, the family's subsidy for health care begins to drop...