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There is an escape hatch in the House proposal: a fail-safe provision stipulating that if annual expenses exceed the budget, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would be required to get the money out of the fees paid to doctors and hospitals. That is fine if the difference is small. But if it runs into the tens of billions, this week's effort to fill in the blanks will seem pointless...
Three senior Republican Senators put on the brakes Tuesday, voicing doubts about the wisdom of a Republican plan that combines cuts in the Medicare and Medicaid programs with a tax cut. Orrin Hatch, Alan Simpson and Alfonse D'Amato raised questions as the Senate Finance Committee began work on the GOP legislation. "I have never been for a tax cut for the rich or anyone else," Simpson said. D'Amato, whose constituents include millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries as well as a huge medical industry, seemed to agree with the Clinton Administration, saying that the Democrats' argument that...
...Storm may have a superficial attraction, I want to cut it off and kill it once and for all. It is true that more tanks and Republican Guard troops escaped from Kuwait than we expected. And yes, we could have taken another day or two to close that escape hatch. And yes, we could have killed, wounded or captured every single soldier in the Republican Guard in that trap. But it would not have made a bit of difference in Saddam's future conduct. Iraq, a nation of 20 million, can always pose a threat to Kuwait, with only...
...Supreme Court is not a representative body; its members are appointed for life so that they may act as neutral, dispassionate umpires in the constitutional disputes of our day. That is precisely how Justice Thomas is carrying out his duties, and he is doing so with distinction. ORRIN G. HATCH U.S. Senator, Utah Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Washington...
...moments of stress, Alicia Silverstone has the adorable and quite marketable habit of squinting -- as if trying to read a TelePrompTer or possibly hatch a thought. This makes the 18-year-old actress the ideal vessel for Clueless, an enjoyable movie that says a lot about the needs of Americans, and not just teens, in the mid-'90s. The tale has Cher (Silverstone), a popular high-schooler in Beverly Hills, toiling as a matchmaker, as her father's confidant, as a makeover adviser to a clumsy friend (Brittany Murphy) and as her stepbrother's nemesis. All this echoes the plot...