Word: coopered
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Meanwhile, other Senators last week argued that a plan to foster so-called & managed competition in health care should be given a chance to work, with little or no provision for mandates. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that this proposal, sponsored by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, would reduce the cost of insurance, in part through $30 billion in subsidies, enough to extend coverage to 91% of Americans. The Cooper-Breaux plan got another boost last week from a new study by Lewin-VHI, a respected consulting firm, which found that...
...Oval Office with Senator Dave Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican on the Finance Committee. To pass health reform, Durenberger told Clinton, "you have to start in the middle, even if that doesn't get you to universal coverage" immediately. Other Senators suggested that Clinton accept something less coercive, like Cooper- Breaux, but include a "trigger" that would impose a partial employer mandate if near universal coverage is not accomplished in a year or so. Though noncommittal, Clinton said he was willing to negotiate the definition and timing of universal coverage...
...story revolves around David Williams, an American history professor under siege by his colleagues and the board of trustees for his refusal to sign a loyalty oath. Played by Jason Cooper, David evinces all the moist-eyed idealism of a true patriot; in both his home and classroom, he has large portraits of his personal hero, Abraham Lincoln, and teaches to his students a mixture of red-white-and-blue rhetoric and history. His wife Elisabeth (Amy Brown) and daughter Joanne (Genevieve Roach) complete the wholesome family portrait. But a closer inspection of the Williams reveals the growing stress fractures...
...George Mitchell as majority leader, the upper chamber's top job. Daschle's shrewd strategy: woo influential incumbent Senators as well as rising Democratic stars who seem likely to ascend to the Senate come November. Among Daschle's targets are two of his former House colleagues, Tennessee's Jim Cooper and Missouri's Alan Wheat...
Actually, what the Stark bill does is play to the same crucial audience that Cooper's plan targets: small-business owners, who are worried that mandatory health costs could force them out of business. This group is now the focus of others' attention as well. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has begun circulating another proposal, similar to Stark's, which Cooper complains is a narrow effort designed simply to win half a dozen Democratic swing votes...