Word: moffit
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...Concerns of those counseling caution range from avoiding a precedent of cross-border political extradition to fear of destabilizing Chile. Then there's the case of the 1976 car bomb in Washington, D.C., that killed Chilean exile Orlando Letelier and American citizen Roni Moffit. "There's already strong circumstantial evidence that Pinochet ordered that attack, and there may be even more precise information in the classified documents," says Zagorin. "The U.S. government hasn't pursued Pinochet's involvement as aggressively as they might have." So, even if the former dictator is sent home by Britain next week...
Merchants say the Clinton mandate would require them to spend an extra $18 billion a year on health insurance. And confidential, computer-aided studies by the White House estimate that the mandate would reduce employment growth by 300,000 to 600,000 jobs. Robert Moffit, a health-care expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, calls mandates a "sham" and a "delusion." Says he: "The major game in health-care financing is to hide the costs by making sure that other people appear to be paying the bills. Well, any increase in employer mandates will be passed on to workers...
...Moffit's group proposed expanding health coverage through an "individual mandate" like the one that requires drivers to carry liability insurance. It would require coverage only for medical bills in excess of $3,000 a year, which would make such insurance more affordable. The Heritage plan has attracted few sponsors in Congress, but Senator John Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican, calls for an individual mandate in his health-reform plan, which has drawn support as a vehicle for bipartisan compromise...