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	Clinton health care plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The result, announced by President Clinton in an address to Congress on September 22, 1993, was a complex and complicated proposal running more than 1,000 pages, the core element of which was an enforced mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organizations (HMOs).
		The plan, referred to derisively as "Hillary Care" by some, was initially well-received by liberal political leaders and most Americans who said health care was the most important issue facing the country.
		On September 26, 1994, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announced that the plan was dead, at least for that session of Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hillarycare (425 words)

	2000_10 \| How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died
		Health care alliances and employer mandates failed to materialize, but Congress is looking at tax incentives to encourage more employers to provide coverage for workers.
		The bottom line: Clinton's reform proposals established the baseline for congressional consideration of health care issues — and led to the adoption (or perhaps eventual adoption) of important pieces of legislation affecting managed care organizations.
		Joe Karpinski, a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee staff member, says that the Clinton proposal failed because it was seen as "pretty much a government takeover of the health care system." One of the big concerns, Karpinski says, was that the proposal would result in a loss of choice of doctor by patients.
	www.managedcaremag.com /archives/0010/0010.clinton.html (2986 words)

	NCPA - Health Care - Creeping Clinton-care
		In a process some observers are calling "stealth health," important elements of President Clinton's massive 1993 proposal to remake health care in America are being included in legislation and entering political debate.
		Clinton's "Health Security Act" went down to defeat back then because the changes it proposed were too massive, radical and bewildering, according to political observers.
		Opponents of President Clinton's plans to socialize the American health care system contend he is now trying to do incrementally what he could not do with a single, sweeping legislative blow in 1993.
	www.ncpa.org /health/pdh72.html (430 words)

	The Economic and Budget Impact of the Clinton Health Plan
		J The Clinton plan sets the stage for another taxpayer bailout, similar to the savings and loan deposit insurance fiasco, by creating a guaranty fund to serve as a payer of last re sort if the new health system runs into difficulties.
		The Clinton plan also includes $86 billion from taxes on corporations and tobacco, as well as an assumption that $71 billion of new revenue will be forthcoming because of higher incomes and other revenue effects 3 4 2 another, the federal government is notorious for underestimating the cost of new entitlement programs.
		But under the new Clinton health care entitlement, the costs borne by employers will be based on the average cost of alliance plans, or a fixed percentage of payroll, and not on the degree to which their employees use medical care.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Budget/bg974.cfm (3505 words)

	How to Oppose the Health Plan—and Why by William Kristol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Health care politics are now at a stalemate: Public enthusiasm for the president’s plan has precipitously declined, but its opponents have failed to capitalize on its obvious flaws and kill it outright.
		Having shown that the Clinton plan is radically dangerous and fundamentally unnecessary, Republicans should act with dispatch to advance meaningful reform alternative: not a competing "plan," but a set of proposals targeted at the specific and limited problems that are of greatest concerns to most Americans.
		If Congress adopts measures to assure everyone already in the health insurance system that his or her coverage cannot be denied in the future--even with a change of jobs or a move--the widespread fear of being dropped or turned down by an insurance plan because of a severe illness will evaporate.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/onprin/v2n1/kristol.html (1570 words)

	Clinton's Health-Care Plan for You: Cradle-to-Grave Slavery, Part 1
		Clinton's health-care plan will be financed by a new payroll tax of 3.5% to 7.6% on all businesses and workers in America (including part-time workers).
		Clinton's plan calls for "shifting the balance in the graduate training of physicians from specialties to primary care." And, "after a five year phase-in period, at least 50 percent of new physicians are trained in primary care rather than in the specific specialty fields."
		Clinton's plan says that "current federal authority is amended to allow forfeitures of proceeds derived from health care fraud" and "the law provides for prejudgment interest or penalties and assessments imposed by an administrative law judge."
	www.fff.org /freedom/0194c.asp (1886 words)

	What Happened to Health Care Reform?
		Clinton's bravura performance at the initial congressional hearings and the submission of the bill, the White House focused entirely on the principles of reform and made little effort to defend the parts of the proposal.
		The Clinton, Cooper, and Chafee proposals all called for consumer choice among competing health plans, the establishment of health insurance purchasing cooperatives, a standard benefit package set or interpreted by a national board, similar reforms of the insurance market, and premium subsidies for low-income families.
		The Clinton plan anticipated opposition by small-business owners and limited their obligations under an approach that the Chamber of Commerce had suggested, but it was to no avail.
	www.princeton.edu /~starr/20starr.html (6537 words)

	Health Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As a result, many workers and their families are likely to go without critical health care or delay seeking the care they need.
		Concern about the health care system is back to the level it was in 1994, before the proposed Clinton health care plan failed.
		By 2010, health insurance premiums for families will be $1,502 higher due to the unreimbursed cost of health care for the uninsured.
	www.workingamerica.org /issues/healthcare.cfm (1019 words)

	revolution: rothbard vs. clinton plan
		And since health care constitutes about one-seventh of the American output, there are enough details and variants to keep a host of policy wonks going for the rest of the their lives.
		Thus, the Clinton Plan states that "A provider may not charge or collect from the patient a fee in excess of the fee schedule adopted by an alliance," and criminal penalties will be imposed for "payment of bribes or gratuities" (i.e.
		Their main argument for the plan is that health care is "too costly," and that thesis rests on the fact that health care spending, over recent years, has risen considerably as a percentage of the GDP.
	www.boogieonline.com /revolution/body/health/clinton.html (1550 words)

	Focus: November 4, 1994 - Health Care Reform: AUTOPSY OF A PROPOSAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When health care reform-that most delicate of political issues-did not get to Congress on time, the ending was the same: dead on arrival.
		Clinton's health care plan, recently declared dead in Congress, failed because "the president spent too long modifying the proposal rather than negotiating it," said Paul Starr, professor of sociology at Princeton University and a member of Clinton's special task force, speaking to 70 physicians on Oct. 20 at the eighth annual Herbert L. Abrams lecture.
		He predicts that health care reform will be pushed back onto the national agenda in the form of "kids-first" proposals-health care for children-and state-by-state reform.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /1994/Nov4_1994/Health_Care.html (607 words)

	Clinton's Health-Care Plan for You: Cradle-to-Grave Slavery, Part 2
		Clinton's plan says your medical records would not be merged with other government databases on you.
		In time, your Clinton ID card could even be used as an internal passport: by altering data in your file, taking away your card, or cancelling it, the government could make it impossible for you to rent a car, check into a hotel room, or buy an airline ticket.
		Clinton's health-care plan includes dozens of new federal public-health initiatives, including "violence and injury control" — a multifaceted set of interventions to cope with "alcohol abuse" and "tobacco prevention." You will also be forced to take medical tests and get inoculations.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0294c.asp (1070 words)

	CorpWatch : US: Once an Enemy, Health Industry Warms to Clinton
		While some people in the health care industry are still wary of Senator Clinton, many say they see her as the likely next Democratic presidential nominee and are moving to influence her agenda on an issue that polls indicate is of growing concern to voters.
		While the health care industry was among her top supporters in her 2000 Senate race, the trend has accelerated in 2006 as her political prominence has grown and as she has become an important legislative player on health care issues.
		Clinton, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has been helpful to insurers in New York, responding to their concern that they were not being adequately paid for their participation in Medicare.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=13876 (1652 words)

	Clinton health care plan and its impact on the telemarketing industry, The Telemarketing - Find Articles
		Clinton' s plan guarantees medical coverage for all citizens through an unproved economic theory called "managed competition." Giant regional purchaser cartels called "health alliances" will be set up to bargain with healthcare providers and publish healthcare prices.
		Under the Clinton plan, telemarketing firms will be required to pay 80 percent of the premium costs for those employees working 30 hours or more a week.
		But the fundamental problem with the plan is that it does nothing to address the issues that have forced medical costs to skyrocket over the years, such as new technology and malpractice lawsuits.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3629/is_199402/ai_n8726389 (876 words)

	NewsHour Online: The Healthcare Debate leading up to Clinton's Healthcare Address to Congress
		He wants to diminish public support for a Clinton plan that can adversely affect the industry but he also is eager to appear accommodating so that he will be able to make adjustments in the reform bill he believes will ultimately pass.
		He has serious problems with employer mandates and universal coverage that are part of Clinton's plan and expresses his concern that the administration is being pushed to the left by liberals in the House.
		Clinton is holding on to his agenda by his fingertips, and health care reform is shunted off until another day.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/may96/background/health_debate_page1.html (2535 words)

	Destroying Health Care in America
		Democrats, in their plan to completely destroy private health care and allow for the federal takeover of this industry want their socialist plans to pass.
		Clinton's proposed Health Security Act would have converted 1/7 of the nation's budget into a health bureaucracy, the freedom to choose physicians and to pick a desired treatment were vitually eliminated.
		For example, parents who pay for their child's medical care not covered by the Clinton health care plan or "alliance" could have be convicted of criminal bribery and graft and fined or imprisoned.
	www.jeremiahproject.com /trashingamerica/healthcare.html (545 words)

	America Must Choose between Clinton Health Plan, Status Quo
		President Clinton's newly released health care plan seeks to accomplish two ends: First, it would guarantee every American basic health insurance without regard to income; second, it would control costs by introducing a scheme of large insurance purchasing cooperatives which would compete to provide insurance for the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost.
		After all, strident opponents of the plan are quick to label it "socialist," and to decry it as the creation of a bureaucracy which would ration out low-quality care without regard to the free market.
		In the health care industry, however, the words "cost-shifting" refer to the practice of shifting the cost of providing care for non-paying or under-paying patients to those who are insured.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N47/hove.47o.html (1347 words)

	Bill Clinton's Liberal Health Care Plan
		His liberal health care plan would have created huge new bureaucracies, taken health choices out of the hands of citizens, and paid for it with staggering new taxes on working Americans-- taxes that would have shattered the economy and cost over a million jobs.
		Clinton and a liberal planner, Ira Magaziner, proceeded to draft a health care bill in secrecy without regard to federal open meetings and open records laws.
		In fact, a new plan is being drafted by those who developed the original Clinton plan that includes health insurance purchasing cooperatives, government- defined benefit packages, and premium subsidies, all key structures of the original Clinton Plan.
	www.gargaro.com /healthcare.html (1224 words)

	CNN - Clinton pushes health care plan for people with disabilities - January 13, 1999
		The bulk of the proposal -- $1.2 billion in health care incentives -- is aimed at helping states allow disabled workers to buy insurance through the Medicaid program even if their incomes would ordinarily make them ineligible.
		Clinton also proposed a $1,000 annual tax credit to help disabled workers with the additional transportation or technology needs they face if the enter the work force, as well as new incentives for disabled Americans to enter job training programs.
		Clinton was joined at the White House by Vice President Al Gore, Sens.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/9901/13/clinton.disabilities.02/index.html (512 words)

	The Clinton Health Care Disaster
		Clinton's plan will take away your freedom of choice in medical care, force you to pay huge new "health-care" taxes, and eliminate your medical and personal privacy.
		The "health plan" that you must join, is a government monopoly on all basic medical care in your area (called a "regional health alliance").
		Under Clinton's plan, the frequency and kind of medical care you are legally allowed will be strictly rationed.
	www.banned-books.com /truth-seeker/1994archive/121_2/ts212f.html (1630 words)

	Health Care Reform
		But access to health care alone will probably not significantly improve the nation's health or reverse the trend in medical costs, costs that have risen from $204 per person a year in 1975 to $3500 today.
		Furthermore, health and physical education, from kindergarten through high school, should be promoted as part of the plans.
		These plans basically ignore the fact that while high-tech medicines may cure the sick and prolong life for a few months or years, the way we live day to day is what helps us avoid sickness in the first place.
	www.hhp.ufl.edu /faculty/pbird/keepingfit/ARTICLE/reform.HTM (519 words)

	Universal health care--now
		The familiar name for this idea is "universal health care," a term that, however accurate, drains the concept of its moral resonance.
		The right's real hope for health care is to radically transform health insurance altogether, so that risk is gradually transferred away from large groups (i.e., the government and large employers) and onto individuals (i.e., you).
		The most popular health insurance plan in the United States is Medicare--which, except for the drug benefit and a few HMOs that contract for the business, is a government-run health care program.
	www.tnr.com /doc.mhtml?pt=oFUISaoYyAT6iYokTjdFRC== (1790 words)

	Latest Breaking Health News & Information: Applesforhealth.com
		President Clinton announced a $110 billion budget initiative aimed at improving health care access for millions of Americans.
		Clinton said the 10-year plan focuses on four areas -- allowing parents to enroll in the same federal programs as their children...working with states to accelerate enrollment of uninsured children eligible for federal programs...providing tax credits to the uninsured, especially the aging...and giving more support for health facilities that provide care to the uninsured.
		The Health Insurance Association of America says some 44 million Americans lack health insurance, and the number will rise to 55 million by 2008 without health care reform.
	www.applesforhealth.com /clintonhealth1.html (247 words)

	Cost of Clinton Health Care Plan Unfair to Students
		Under the Clinton health plan, all adults in a given region would pay similar health care rates, without regard to their likely use of medical services.
		And if the final version of the Clinton plan sets lower rates for students or allows them to be insured through their families, the rates on recent graduates will have to go higher in compensation.
		Whenever you see someone celebrating the new health plan, remember that they're celebrating a subsidy which you'll be paying for in the near future.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N45/bader.45o.txt.html (987 words)

	PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS AND THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE PLAN
		President Clinton proposes to insure that all Americans enjoy health care insurance that includes benefits for pharmaceutical drugs.
		It is essential that this be remedied in the health legislation that you are considering today.
		While the federal government does not publish statistics show the portion of its health care R&D expenditures going toward the development of pharmaceutical inventions, it is possible to look at some comparable figures.
	www.cptech.org /pharm/waxman.html (2392 words)

	WASHINGTON POST Health Care Poll, October 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Respondents were asked about their own form of health insurance, the source of that coverage, and their level of knowledge concerning Clinton's health care plan.
		Items assessing Clinton's proposal for health care focused on respondents' approval of the plan, whether the plan was better than the present system, and whether respondents would support an increase in taxes to help pay for Clinton's health care plan.
		Additional survey items covered whether the Clinton administration had a complete plan for health care reform, whether Clinton had described all the important features of the plan to the public, and whether people such as Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, or Robert Dole, among others, had influenced how respondents thought about the health care plan.
	webapp.icpsr.umich.edu /cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06287.xml (373 words)

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