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...medical costs reaching feverish heights, prescription prices have become the first major target of health-care reformers' wrath. The President last month blasted the price of prescription drugs as "shocking" and blamed vaccinemakers for pursuing "profits at the expense of our children." His remarks came a day after Hillary Rodham Clinton denounced the cost of childhood vaccines -- which have risen 1,000% in a decade -- and suggested that drugmakers would oppose the Administration's forthcoming health-care reforms. The industry's earnings also came under attack; Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California last week unveiled a 354-page Office...
...shares with two children and his art historian wife Mary Jane Clark ("a full-blooded Wasp," he notes) boasts a room filled with Indian keepsakes. The family will soon be relocating to the Washington area, where Clark will find an old schoolmate: her dorm counselor at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Administration is considering a number of other levies to recapture the savings that private companies will enjoy from a national health-care system. The taxes were described in a memo, which was leaked to the Wall Street Journal, from Clinton adviser Ira Magaziner to task-force leader Hillary Rodham Clinton. Among the levies discussed: taxes on benefit plans that offer coverage above a certain level (currently all employee health-care benefits are exempt); a corporate tax in addition to the general increase in the corporate rate to 36% that the President proposed last week; and taxes on "noncritical" health measures...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton's now immortal derogation of domesticity resurrected the "mommy track" debate. Could working women be adequate mothers? Was motherhood incompatible with corporate success? Increased attention was paid to the economic, social and intellectual costs of child rearing versus those of working full-time...
...drive to immunize is a priority of Hillary Rodham Clinton's. At a conference in Pennsylvania, the First Lady chided drug firms for raising vaccine prices more than tenfold since 1981. The next day President Clinton echoed that theme, charging drugmakers with seeking "profits at the expense of our children." The companies say high prices result from product-liability suits aimed at the industry...