Biomedical subjects
J Kosterlitz
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Paying the bill.
Businesses are in revolt over President Clinton's proposal to require employers to underwrite their workers' health coverage. But it won't be easy to find another way to provide universal coverage without higher taxes.
Guiding it through.
Some relatively little known Members of Congress and an even less visible group of aides are playing important behind-the-scenes roles in the health care reform debate.
Stress fractures.
President Clinton has lambasted "special interests" for opposing his health care reform proposal. But interest groups are under enormous pressure, and many are badly splintered as Congress takes up the issue. And you can't always judge what they want by what they say.
Can this patient be saved?
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Itching for a fight?
The Health Insurance Association of America complains that the White House has made it a scapegoat in the health reform debate. But the trade group's brawl with the Administration has also been a rallying point for a badly divided industry.
No room at the inn for reform?
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Health lobby hiring spree continuing.
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Same players, new teams in health debate.
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Winners and losers.
The health care reform debate has entered a politically explosive new stage: figuring out which Americans would come out ahead and which would pay more under Clinton's plan.
Here a quack, there a tax.
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Ready for relaunch?
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All together now.
Integrated health plans, in which doctors, hospitals and insurers join forces to manage care, are a cornerstone of the "managed competition" approach to health care reform. But it's not clear that these longtime adversaries are ready to work together--or that consumers will be happy if they do.
OK, stick out your tongue and say 'taxes'.
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Health lobby cranks up its postage meter.
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Let the deal making begin.
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Who's in charge?
President Clinton's health care reform plan avoids the appearance of government control by diffusing and delegating authority to a host of new institutions. The net result, ironically, may be a system that is less accountable to the public than one in which government's role is clearer.
Ok, here's the Clinton plan: now what?
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