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Price said a proposal by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) to tax ammunition might be more effective at reducing gun-related deaths...
...Administration also spelled out some further details of its plans. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, Shalala said 40% of people who now have medical insurance would have to pay more for coverage -- about $100 to $500 a year more. Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan estimated that would be 100 million people; Shalala did not contradict him, but another Administration official said the number would be about 71 million. Whatever the number, said Shalala, they would be paying a bargain price for the increased security of knowing that their insurance could never be canceled or reduced...
...deliver the four-course free lunch that he promised. The health-care initiative he unveiled to the nation last Wednesday, though widely praised for boldness and compassion, is drawing fire on precisely the point identified by Aaron and others: the rosy assumptions that undergird its financing. Senator Pat Moynihan of New York, chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, spoke for many fellow Democrats last week when he dismissed those assumptions as "fantasy" and warned that "we mustn't pretend that this is going to be free." And Republican lawmakers who attended the President's address wore lapel buttons that asked...
...laid the groundwork for rebuilding the nation's health-care system and guaranteeing coverage for every American. The President finessed the financing details but did say his plan would be funded in part by increased cigarette taxes and a surtax paid by self-insuring companies. Days earlier, Senator Daniel Moynihan, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had labeled the Administration's hope of financing the plan mainly by means of Medicare and Medicaid cuts "a fantasy...
...rather than clearly old or new. Such artful ambivalence is often necessary in Washington, but Clinton's was on display all the time, and he gave both factions license to carp at him as inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun from whole cloth...