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...health and child care policy, Clinton proposed an increase in the tobacco tax, an extension of the Family and Medical Leave Act to cover more workers and a Consumer Bill of Rights to empower patients and to end abusive practices by health insurance companies and HMOs. To ensure that Americans do not have to choose between their jobs and their children, the President proposed child care tax credits for working families and for businesses that provide child care for their employees. These proposals are crucial in helping ensure that welfare reform does not throw millions of our nation's poorest...
...plans to use somewhat unconventional methods to reach out to its audience. The health care workgroup, for instance, will present an outdoor street skit about someone denied adequate health care because of excessive bureaucracy and HMOs to draw attention from passers...
America rejected Bill and Hillary's prescription for change in 1993 partly because it threatened their comfortable care in the hands of fee-for-service doctors. But since 1993, the number of people who have been nudged into HMOs has increased 50%, to 67.5 million. And as participation rates have climbed, so have complaints, many of which sound like the horrors that would supposedly have taken place under the Clinton plan: rationing of procedures, a narrower choice of doctors. Fueling the backlash has been a spate of front-page stories about plans that will pay for cataract surgery in only...
Companies consult with physicians in group practice as well as with health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and pharmaceutical companies...
Gephardt's defense of the liberal position on other issues has been respectably dependable. Upon Congress' adjournment last month, he announced an agenda for next year that proves his pulse is still on the things that matter: ensuring the quality of care provided by HMOs, improving pension security and giving kids somewhere to go after school...