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...House Ways and Means Committee resuscitated President Clinton's health reforms, barely approving a plan to insure every American by 1998 and requiring employers to foot most of the bill. But just before the 20-18 vote, their counterparts in Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Senate Finance Committee dumped the president's employer mandate, voting instead to tax the richest health benefit plans and set a goal of getting at least 95 percent of Americans covered by 2002. Three conflicting Congressional health care bills will now go through another shredding before a compromise squeaks onto the House and Senate floors...
...national health care. This week, under the surprisingly steady hand of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Senate Finance Committee will haggle over the shape of its health care package; that package will, in all likelihood, bear a striking resemblance to whatever program President Clinton signs or vetoes...
There are a lot of legitimate issues for health care mavens to dispute. The one the Finance Committee is hung up on isn't one of them--and Senator Moynihan knows...
Leon Panetta is wasting no time in trying to yank President Clinton's legislative agenda out of the gutter lane. In his first 24 hours as White House chief of staff, the former budget director and congressional powerhouse held cloakroom negotiations with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Clinton's troubled health care package, went on TV to pooh-pooh a weekend poll showing sinking approval ratings, then staged a lunch for 40 reporters to push Clinton's well-received crime and welfare reform bills. TIME White House correspondent Michael Duffy says Panetta is moving quickly to clarify the stakes...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a sneak preview of his own health care plan, which reads a lot like President Clinton's. Expect a nail-biter tomorrow when the Senate Finance Committee votes on Moynihan's strategy. He'll push voluntary measures to have employers pay for medical insurance, but effectively make them pay ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers...