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...something, people want it to be clear, discrete and understandable. Take health care: if you try to reform it all at once, you're vulnerable to charges that aren't true but are powerful, like I was trying to have the government take it over. With Kennedy-Kassebaum, we did a big portion of what we needed to do. Now I think we ought to take the next step, which is to provide coverage for families who are working but unemployed for an extended period of time. Then we'll take another step. We're in an era when people...
...White House. But the trach was not in a good position. He was nervous when he got to the Hill: "I mean, all the media were there. I think 12 or 15 Senators were there, all friends and supporters--Paul Simon, Pat Leahy, [Paul] Wellstone from Minnesota, Nancy Kassebaum, John Kerry from Massachusetts, Bob Kerrey from Nebraska--all there in the front row, two feet away from me. Like, right in my face, all sort of looking with great support and ready for me to say something pithy and impressive. And I felt the moment has come...
...SENATORS KASSEBAUM & KENNEDY Their portable-health-insurance bill, once stalled by the industry, wins final passage...
...Even as the Senate was slashing the social safety net, the House swept through a cluster of popular health care reforms. The Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, which passed by a 421-2 margin and is headed for a similar reception in the Senate today, ensures portability of coverage from job to job, prohibits denial of insurance because of existing medical conditions and increases the health care deduction for the self-employed. Taken with a 90-cent minimum wage increase, passed by week's end, the health care and welfare reforms ensure that this Congress will leave its mark. "We've seen...
...must move on FDA reform and bring reform to the House floor," Kerry said, without endorsing Kassebaum's bill...