European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tit stars and stripes j . Monday Long term health care plan studied by the new York mme Washington the Clinton administration is Cost during a new government subsidised program to provide Long term Tare to people with chronic illnesses elderly people have Long sought Federal help with the Cost of Long term care one of their biggest health expenses confidential work Pape Jom the president s task Lone tin National health care Reform show that a major goal of the new Long term care program is to shift spending from nursing Homes to Community based services that provide medical care and other. Types of assistance to people living in their own Homes. The planning is still in the Early stage. No decisions have been made and the Cost of the new program has not been calculated. The elderly arc the biggest users of Long term cat but the work papers Thow that the administration sees need for Uch services among people of All Ages. Whom do we plan to cover in this initiative asks the working group on Long term care one of two dozen such groups operating under the supervision of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Disabled elderly. Physically disabled nonce Durly. Mentally retarded developmentally Dis  in addition the working group says the target population includes people with aids. The memorandum does not mention the 4 million people with alzheimer s disease. But the working group is Well aware of their needs because a vice presi Dent of the alzheimer s association Steven a Mccon null briefly served on the staff of the task Force. Clinton s task Force is considering potentially costly new benefits at the same time president Clinton is asking Congress to trim $62 billion from the projected growth of medicare and medicaid Over the next five years the working group on Long term care evidently wants to encourage people to buy private insurance to cover the costs of such care but it also assumes that there will be new Federal costs. Though the work papers make no estimate of those costs they show that the task Force is considering new taxes to finance the new program including estate taxes and payroll taxes. Other options include general revenues private insurance and personal savings perhaps with new tax Breaks for people who establish accounts earmarked for Long term care. The taxes would be above and beyond those proposed by Clinton this week $251 billion Over five years from higher individual and corporate taxes. President Clinton and daughter Chelsea answer children s questions saturday on a live to talk show from the White House. Father daughter cat of in fhe eos room fell a it & t of a k to mtg at Washington a the first daughter and the first cat made a joint appearance on National television sat urday. Forty kids in the Hast room of the White House had been tossing questions at president Clinton when Abc news Anchor Peter Jennings said there s somebody they would like to meet  and in came eighth grader Chelsea Clinton carrying socks. She perched on a Stool alongside her father. The questions which had been Cen tired on serious issues War the environment homelessness aids Sud Denly turned mundane what s it like to have secret service agents follow you to school every Day it s of they stay out of the Way they really do Chelsea said. They have an office on the third floor of my school and they sit there most of the Day she reported. And when i m in gym they come outside sit on the bleachers and just watch my soc cer  the president confirmed that socks has the run of the White House. Basically he can go wherever he wants he said. He called his daughter a pretty Good girl and said she is very Good about her Homework. The number one thing we have to do is to make her go to bed earlier Clinton said. There was one final question is Chelsea single a boy asked. She better be the first father re plied. Majority backs Clinton plan polls show new York a most americans support president Clinton s share the pain economic program according to three polls released saturday. A time Magazine can poll found 62 percent of respondents approve the plan Clinton outlined last week and news week reported 59 percent of people it surveyed favor congressional approval of his proposal. A los Angeles times Survey found 60 percent approved of the president s Over All plan and 62 percent said they re will ing to accept the tax increases and spend ing cuts to improve the nation s Economy. Two thirds said they believed the plan was mostly fair to them according to the poll published in sunday s editions. The Newsweek poll came with More Good views for Clinton his approval ratings up after a month on the Job. Last month 51 percent of americans approved of his handling of the Job while 57 percent gave Clinton thumbs up in the new poll. According to the time can figures 76 percent of americans believe Clin ton s economic plan Means real change and 85 percent believe it deserves a Chance to work. People also Are willing to put their Money where their Mouths Are with 71 percent believing they should make sacrifices for Clinton s plan the time in poll found. The Newsweek poll found three out of four americans believe their wealthiest fellow citizens will still find loopholes to beat High taxes. And where will the extra tax Money go forty five percent believe it will Cut the deficit and 46 percent believe it will fund More government spending news week said. The time poll of 800 people was done by Telephone on feb. 18, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage Points. The Newsweek poll of 753 people done by Telephone on feb. 18-19, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 Points. The times poll interviewed 1,273 adults nationwide by Telephone on thursday an Friday. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage Points. Perot urges crowds to Monitor Clinton taxing spending Wintink Park a. A Ross Perot told 3.300 Noole at the Rollins Riim it ii. Wintis. Air Ros cheering crowds saturday that he expects the Clinton administration will tax and spend heavily and that it s up to the american people to see that their Money misspent responsibly. The Texas billionaire responding again to Clinton s proposals to Cut the Federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting spending said it was time Clinton explained exactly what he plans to Cut. Give us details on spending cuts Perot told about 3,300 people at the Rollins College gym. Tell us precisely when they will  Perot is spending the weekend barnstorming Florida totally support for his group United we stand America. During several stops saturday the former Independent presidential candidate offered his own prescription for fixing the . Government. It included better bookkeeping a balanced budget amendment a presidential line item veto quarterly reports on spending congressional pay cuts cuts in lawmakers Perks and retirement funds and elimination of political action committees. Perot said those who supported his presidential Campaign last year could take credit for making the govern ment face up to an economic crisis. We be got work to do but we got the crazy aunt out of the basement Perot said. This time last year no body talked about the National debt or the deficit. I said it was a like a crazy aunt in the basement. Every body knew she was there but nobody talked about