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...economy, which, like a surgical patient who must feel worse before he can get better, might need to endure modestly higher unemployment for several years as the price of reform. Trouble is, Clinton has not prepared the public for any sacrifice. He and his top health-care strategist, Ira Magaziner, have been selling health-care reform as a four-course free lunch. Everyone will be covered. It won't require new taxes. It will immediately boost job creation. And it will immediately reduce the federal deficit. "Several of us," says a political adviser to Clinton, "are worried that...
...precautions have increased at hospitals, schools, shopping malls, offices, courthouses and even libraries. And for good reason. Within the past year, librarians have been attacked and killed behind their desk in Sacramento, California, and Buckeye, Arizona. Incidents of violence against health-care workers have increased 400% since 1982, says Ira - A. Lipman, chairman of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and head of Guardsmark, Inc., the nation's fifth largest security company. "Companies are very concerned because one incident in a shopping mall can destroy business...
...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...