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- │MANDATORY HEALTH INSURANCE -- CLINTON PLANS FOR│
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- One would have to be on another planet to be unaware of the
- massive, revolutionary social changes that have been pro-
- posed by the Clinton Administration regarding mandatory and
- universal health care coverage. As of March, 1995, the
- momentum of the rush towards massive health care reform ap-
- pears to have been slowed greatly, since no health care bill
- passed in the last session of Congress.
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- While the new Congress may take up the subject again in
- 1995, public enthusiasm for major changes appears to have
- cooled, and the Republican victory in the November, 1994
- Congressional elections is likely to further slow any move-
- ment towards a federal overhaul or takeover of the health
- care industry, particularly since private sector changes
- in the health care delivery system have already begun to
- reduce the high rate of cost inflation that has prevailed
- in the medical care industry for many years.
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- However, one should not yet declare "health care reform" to
- be a dead letter. Health care costs are still devastatingly
- high and still rising, albeit at a somewhat slower rate, and
- many individuals and small firms are being priced out of the
- market. Small business, which is likely to be hurt most by
- any type of changes similar to the Clinton plan, is likely
- to continue to strongly oppose enactment of any major and
- radical changes that would require the MANDATORY provision
- of health insurance to employees by their employers.
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