Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter was making news, but Kennedy's shadow loomed over the occasion. The President's aides estimated that the Senator's comprehensive plan would cost a staggering $63.8 billion a year to the Government and employers, just for openers. It makes more sense, said Carter, to make a start with a less sweeping plan. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano observed that there was no more chance of getting a program like Kennedy's through Congress "than putting an elephant through a keyhole...
Later Kennedy held a jampacked press conference to brand the President's proposal as inadequate, inflationary and dangerous. His own plan, the Senator noted, would fix doctor and hospital charges for everybody, the President's only for Healthcare patients. Thundered Kennedy: "This step is a regressive one, inconsistent with the goal of a truly single-class health care system. By failing to set a national budget, by failing to control doctors' fees in the private sector, by perpetuating two separate and unequal systems of care, the President's plan may well become the straw that breaks...
...plan, Kennedy said, would cost Americans "only" $35.7 billion a year net; he arrived at that figure by subtracting from the federal and employer tab of $63.8 billion the sum of $28.1 billion which he claims the nation would save in medical bills. On the same basis, Carter's plan would save $6 billion, reducing its net cost to $18.3 billion. The Senator claimed that the eventual cost of the fuller scheme that the President promised to work for would be $60 billion a year...
...debate might seem like shadowboxing. Congressional leaders agree that neither Carter's nor Kennedy's plan has an elephant's chance of slipping through a Congress that is pinching pennies and looking forward nervously to the 1980 elections. At minimum, however, the Carter-Kennedy battle will keep the issue alive until the primaries begin. And if Kennedy does decide to square off against Carter, the health plan that sounds better to Democratic voters may have a say in deciding who whips whom...
...twelve times a year. The new members expect to work harder, and will be paid the same salaries they would have received as members of their national legislative bodies (which vary widely), plus travel allowances. These could prove to be considerable if the Parliament sticks to its plan to hold half its monthly plenary sessions in Strasbourg, the other half in Luxembourg and nearly all committee meetings in Brussels. But the political heavyweights are already chafing about that idea. Brandt, for one, in an initial show of parliamentary independence, declared that the seat for the new Parliament...