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...lobbyists wasted no time biting into Treasury I. Insurance executives calculated that such loophole closings as taxing employer-paid life insurance and other fringe benefits would cost the industry about $100 billion over five years. Led by Richard Schweiker, who was President Reagan's Secretary of Health and Human Services before becoming head of the American Council of Life Insurance, the industry launched a $5 million lobbying campaign that can only be described as state...
...Richard Schweiker, former HHS Secretary, is president of the American Council of Life Insurance...
...noticed by the 150 invited guests. China's Ambassador to Washington, Zhang Wenjin, continued to hold court in one corner, studiously refusing to note the presence of the legendary General Claire Chennault's widow Anna (Chennault was longtime air adviser to the Nationalists). Former Cabinet Officer Richard Schweiker, now head of an insurance trade group, went right on greeting old political friends. After all, like Louis B. Mayer and his famous meetings, Washington's power elite does not attend a party-it takes a party. For that, the presence of the host is hardly necessary...
...reacting quickly and massively," said Richard Schweiker, the former Senator and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary who now runs the American Council of Life Insurance. The life and health insurers have bought $ 1 million worth of TV ads to stir opposition to taxing fringe benefits (one ad shows a flock of birds circling around and pecking away at a loaf of bread). The Massachusetts Legislative Council for Older Americans is preparing a nationwide call for mass meetings, parades and a march on Washington to resist Medicare cuts. Vows a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "If they...
...successes, the CDC has had to fight for funds?including money to set up EIS in 1951?by stressing the national security benefits of the center. In 1981, the White House considered cutting the CDC budget by 23%; Richard Schweiker, who was then HHS Secretary, successfully fought to protect its funds. With the current concern about AIDS, the CDC seems secure for the present; its 1983 budget is $261 million, less than 1% of the amount spent for Medicare and Medicaid...