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...other ways too the Administration has sought to keep up momentum. Earlier this month health-care adviser Ira Magaziner gave an update to hundreds of members of the working groups that had studied what to propose. Onstage alone for 10 hours in the Old Executive Office Building, Magaziner stressed again that the Administration intends to give states maximum flexibility in delivering a basic benefits package. To the many in his audience who favor a "single-payer" system (government acts as sole insurer and pays all bills), Magaziner advised, "If you think single payer is best, then argue for that...
...Ira E. Stoll '94, the President of The Crimson, will answer questions from just about anyone...
Interview: Ira Magaziner speaks...
Clinton is determined to build tremendous flexibility into the plan, so that states can develop their own systems and patients can have a reasonably wide choice of doctors and hospitals, said Ira Magaziner, the White House health- care adviser, in an interview with TIME. "It's just too diverse a country. If you try to put one template on the country, it will be too bureaucratic," said Magaziner. "We also think that it helps, when you're trying something new like this, having different states do it somewhat differently without pushing the whole country in some direction. As much...
...emerged on the likely shape of the plan that Clinton's health-care task force will present next month. For instance, while Medicare will continue to cover retirees already in the program, in the future elderly Americans will be covered by the new plan instead. White House health adviser Ira Magaziner also disclosed that the plan would probably be financed by a payroll tax split between employers and workers...