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...gist of Mitchell's idea is to have everybody buy his own insurance. As with the original Clinton plan, his would forbid insurers to reject any applicant because of pre-existing health problems. The bill would also place limits on how much premiums could rise, in part through a 25% tax on health- insurance plans whose premiums grow faster than an approved rate. The poor would get government help to pay for coverage, with the subsidies going first to poor children and pregnant women. Funding would come partly from a new tax on cigarettes of 45 cents a pack...
This was the gist of Arthur Schlesinger's recent commencement tirade addressed to graduate students at New York University...
...evening newscast in February, but NBC, CNN and CBS held off until last week, and even then mostly gave the story short shrift. TIME briefly mentioned the case in a two-page story on Clinton haters in the April 11 issue, while last week Newsweek used the gist of Jones' charges as a metaphor for the President's governing style in a five-page critique titled "The Politics of Promiscuity...
...called another Democrat who plans to vote against NAFTA. I hardly needed to lecture him about economics; he has postgraduate degrees galore. Yet he ) sounded almost blase. The gist of his comment was that the past 12 years had been a time of high living on the backs of the working guy -- one defeat for labor after another -- so it was time to let labor win one. Congress would defeat NAFTA, he said. The President of Mexico would lose his job. They'd elect a new one, and in a year or two Canada, Mexico and the U.S. would negotiate...
...gist of Jendi Reiter's argument ("A Gentleman's 'B+'", March 15, p. 2) seems to be that Harvard students (including herself, we are to presume) are so wonderful that we, your instructors, should give you all high grades in order to make you happy and to help you get the good jobs you deserve. Her remarks, lacking even at iota of the self-critical altitude which Harvard should (but often doesn't) instill in its students, closely resemble the arguments put forth by Sean Becker of the U.C. during March 11's IOP panel discussion on grade inflation...