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Those in the no-compromise faction that surrounds the First Lady calculate that they don't need Cooper to make the Clinton plan fly. Instead they are wooing the estimated 90 members of Congress, most of them liberals, who favor , a Canadian-style, single-payer system. This official calculates prematurely -- and improbably -- that with those votes, the Clinton plan is just 30 votes shy of passing. But in trolling for those votes, the Administration does not want to continue giving free publicity to Cooper by campaigning against his plan...
Other changes aimed at loosening what many critics had charged was an excess of bureaucratic regulation. States were given an extra year, until Jan. 1, 1998, to set up the health-care alliances the plan contemplates. If a state opts instead for a single-payer system under which the government becomes sole insurer and pays all doctor and hospital bills, the revised bill simplifies the administrative procedures that state must go through. To ease fears that the Administration will restrict patients' choice of doctors, the final bill provides that even health maintenance organizations must allow members to consult doctors...
...prevent this from happening.) But it is a fact that the Clinton bill's list of sponsors -- fewer than 50 Democrats in the House and 31 Senators, including a lone Republican, Jim Jeffords of Vermont -- compares unfavorably with the 89 House Democrats sponsoring a bill to institute a single-payer system for the entire country, or the 50-odd bipartisan sponsors of the most popular competing House bill...
...enact any. And if Clinton's plan has yet to command a majority, the opposition has not yet coalesced behind any alternative. Those proposed run the gamut from a conservative Republicans' bill that would merely provide tax credits for people buying health insurance, to the liberal Democrats' single- payer plan; neither has a chance of passing...
Managed competition, single payer plans and mental health coverage were topics of discussion yesterday at a health reform teach-in at the Kennedy School of Government...