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...Senate Labor and Senate Finance bills offer a package similar to the current Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan, which Hillary Rodham Clinton describes as "the type of coverage your Congressman has." The House Labor and Education and House Ways and Means benefits packages are both modeled on Medicare and include substance-abuse treatment and coverage of abortions. Both Senate Labor and Human Resources and House Education and Labor bills cover prescription drugs. Senate Finance's provides home care for the disabled. The Dole plan, like the Clinton plan, requires that insurers offer at least 1 of 3 options...
...longer in a position as chief of staff to protect him.) Despite their past differences with Panetta, political advisers such as Begala, James Carville and Mandy Grunwald are likely to gain in strength too with less counterinfluence from Gergen and McLarty (and a possible boost from Hillary Rodham Clinton, who tends to lean their way). All these advisers reject the bipartisan approach that won victories for the Brady Bill and NAFTA in favor of an appeal to the liberal Democratic core constituency. In some cases they would rather have an issue to use against the Republicans than a legislative victory...
...plan as gimmickry at its worst. It sells consumers down the river," said Bob Carolla, legislative counsel for Consumers Union. Reaction by the White House to the rump group's plan was muted. "Encouraging," said Lorrie McHugh, the White House's health-care spokeswoman. Earlier in the week, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a fiery call to arms to supporters of the Administration's plan, urging them to stand firm. "No other reform in our health-care system will work if we do not achieve guaranteed universal coverage," she declared. But she noted approvingly to Moynihan that "good things are happening...
...other congressional committees and voted in favor of mandating employers to finance health insurance, with breaks for small businesses. But leaders of the Senate Finance Committee told President Clinton they did not have the votes on their panel for such a provision, which the President favors. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the possibility of negotiating away abortion coverage, if necessary, to pass a compromise bill...
...chief squelcher of controversy and scandal. But now her peculiar combination of roles -- confidant, hatchet woman and business lobbyist -- is proving to be a potential hazard for the Administration. Just last week Wright had to disavow a New Yorker article that quoted her suggesting that Hillary Rodham Clinton had plans to run for the presidency. While most people in Washington know enough to take some of her statements with a grain of salt, she can still embarrass the White House...