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...biggest obstacle to agreement, Clinton heard from the Senators, is the so-called employer mandate. That provision of the Clinton plan would require employers to pay about 80% of the cost of health insurance for their workers. This would help Clinton extend coverage to 35 million uninsured Americans without raising taxes on the 85% who already have insurance. "The mandate is vital," says Senator Jay Rockefeller, the West Virginia Democrat and main Clinton-plan backer in the Senate. "You don't get to universal coverage without it," he adds...
...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 the 9% who would remain uninsured would be mainly young, healthy adults and others who consume little health care...
Clinton, however, is unlikely to extend MFN without any conditions. The President boxed himself into a corner a year ago by issuing an Executive Order that made any extension of MFN past June 3 dependent on "significant progress" by China on human-rights issues. Given the meager improvements so far, Clinton & Co. are not going to find it easy to make a plausible case to the human-rights lobby -- or the American public. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 62% of respondents felt that encouraging human rights in China was more important than trade, and 60% said...
...purpose of the U.N.'s founders was not to create a body that could be helpful at certain times. The U.N. was meant to be a binding commitment by major powers to reject force as a means of diplomacy. This commitment was to extend to small and large, weak and powerful...
...these questions of privacy extend to the faculty as well, Damon said. "Some professors feel that it's perhaps not anyone's business what sort of grading scale they use," she said...