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...strict federal rules, was never really unitary. Clinton notes that the basic monthly benefit for a welfare family ranged from $187 (in Mississippi) to $655 (in Vermont). But now, more than ever, there will be 50 separate systems. In fact more, since many states may, and should, permit variations from locality to locality...
Workers who lose their jobs involuntarily or become self-employed can remain covered as well. Under current law, insurers that provide group health-care plans do not have to offer individual policies. But the measure orders insurers to permit customers to switch from group to individual plans...
...bill also creates a four-year trial program that will permit some 750,000 policyholders to open tax-deductible medical savings accounts to pay for such routine expenses as visits to the doctor. In return for the tax deduction, account holders must purchase insurance against serious illness. Participants will be drawn from the ranks of the self-employed and from employees of small companies and individuals who are uninsured...
Dole wants a $5 billion program that would provide vouchers worth up to $1,500 a year. That would permit lower- and middle-income parents of about 4 million school-age children a wider variety of schools to choose from. Clinton needn't worry, Dole noted last week; Chelsea Clinton attends a private school. The problem, Dole said, is that those without "money, power or office" can't follow the President's example. "Here's an issue where we Republicans are with the average guy and the Democrats are with the bosses," says former Education Secretary Bill Bennett. "Choice...
...marriage advocates propose to permit the marriage of, say, two brothers, or of a mother and her (adult) daughter? If not, by what reason of logic or morality...