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Nonetheless, Clinton's willingness to bend is the best indication that he may see a reform package on his desk this fall. For weeks, Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan had been trying to convince the White House that he lacked the votes to pass any plan, much less the Administration's grandiose scheme. The sticking point has been Clinton's employer mandates, which would require employers to pay 80% of the cost of health insurance for all full-time workers. Fearing depressed profits and warning of layoffs, small-business lobbyists generated enough opposition to effectively kill that provision...
Last week the White House finally got Moynihan's message: "We were running out of time," explained an Administration official. "It's time to make this thing happen." The new vehicle, called a "trigger," was proposed by Louisiana Senator John Breaux, a moderate Democrat who is developing a reputation as a breaker of logjams. Breaux wants to postpone the employer mandate for small companies until the end of 1997; in the meantime new subsidies and tax incentives would encourage small businesses to insure their workers. If small companies, defined as those with 25 employees or less, failed to insure...
...White House meeting last Tuesday, Clinton, Moynihan and Republican Senator Robert Packwood debated whether the trigger would bring about universal coverage. Packwood argued that the trigger should not be automatic, that Congress should be required to approve the mandates before they go into effect. At this, Clinton balked. Anything that requires another act of Congress, the President said, was unacceptable. The next step was to bring in technical experts on the Senate Finance Committee, who huddled late last week with Administration officials to design a trigger that both Democrats and Republicans can live with. But it's a measure...
Prickly Senator Daniel Moynihan has made it very clear he's the man the President has to please on health-care and welfare reform
...influential group of business executives who abandoned his idea earlier this year. The First Lady, speaking to various labor and seniors' groups, admitted that health care was "at risk," but said universal coverage was still nonnegotiable. Key congressional leaders were less adamant. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan said only that he was committed to health care as a "national goal." "It's looking bad," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. "I think that for the first time the White House is beginning to entertain the idea that it just may not happen...