European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thi 8tahs and stilts Tif 4health Industry killing us says angry first lady Fri wire report Boston Hillary Rodham Clinton said monday that the . Medical system will a kill us literally a financially spiritually morally and socially Quot unless it is reformed but she also fought to lower Public expectations that there will be any Quick fixes. After a 90-minute meeting with about 20 Community health care providers Ana activists the first lady warned that Quot there is no Way Quot that everyone will be Happy with the overhaul Agenda she is shaping which is scheduled to be presented to Congress in May. In previous Public appearances she has said special interest groups Are Likely to resist significant reforms. On monday she again took swipes at the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries during a tour of the commercial District of Hyde Park a South Boston working class Community. Clinton who is in charge of revamping the nations health care system came with Tipper Gore and . Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., to listen take notes and ask questions. Gore is the wife of vice president Al Gore. Clinton also spoke with those in the Quot front lines Quot of health care deliver the doctors nurses and Community health care workers who serve poor and elderly patients drug abusers and teen age parents. At Mario a restaurant where a neighbourhood resident told her he cannot get health coverage because of diabetes Clinton seemed angry and lambasted the insurance Industry for seeking Only Quot Small pools with very few people with no pre existing conditions and being Able to move the rates up or Down at she fumed Quot its like we should All drop dead without Ever going into the Hospital. This cannot go at the Home pharmacy when owner David Morgan talked of the Quot skyrocketing Cost of prescription drugs Clinton wondered Why name Brand drugs Cost so much More than generic brands saying Quot done to you think we a february 24, ill Leary Rodham Clinton and sen. Edward m. Kennedy share a Tough monday at a Boston health care forum. Ought to find out Quot Clinton who chairs the White House task Force on National health care Reform also vowed to Quot come up with a plan that will contain costs Quot noting that unless controlled health care spending could account for 20 percent of the Gross Domestic product within 10 years up from the current 14 percent. Having promised during the Campaign to control health care costs and provide Universal insurance coverage president Clinton is increasingly Hamstrung by his administration s own projections that the budget deficit is worsening at a time when expanding coverage could Cost $90 billion a year or More. Hillary Clinton a task Force is also studying a recommendation that the government subsidize Long term care and prescription drugs for the elderly measures that Likely will Garner crucial support for Overall change from powerful senior citizens groups but would add tens of billions of dollars to the Cost of National health Reform. As a result an array of new taxes is under consideration including on alcohol and tobacco As Well specific insurance reforms such As barring insurers from refusing to cover those with costly Quot pre existing medical conditions and imposing limits on How much insurers can charge for premiums. The task Force which includes six Cabinet members and senior White House staffers also is said to be considering a one year wage and Price freeze on the health care Industry while implementing a National system of insurance coverage known As managed Competition. Managed Competition refers to the grouping of Consumers into Large purchasing pools staffed by professionals with the expertise to shop among doctors hospitals and other providers for the Best Quality and Price. But Clinton a own health policy analysts have concluded it could take five years or More before any tangible savings become evident under managed Competition. Airbus unfair Clinton tells Boeing crowd by Gwen Ifill the new York times Everett Wash. President Clinton told aeronautical workers monday that their livelihoods were imperilled because of unfair foreign Competition and that the Federal government would help them. At other stops on his Road trip to promote his economic plan Clinton has appealed for support for the tax increases that Are its major feature. But this time was one of reassurance. Clinton spoke at the Boeing Headquarters where managers said last week that they would Lay off27,000 workers in the next 18 months. The president said that employees were not to blame for their plight and that unfair foreign Competition had undercut their Industry. The president was especially critical of european subsidies for the multimillion Dollar Airbus jetliner project that has left in and me. Scrambling to compete. Boeing and Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Quot it is indeed ironic that the United states which for so Long has led the world in the production of air planes and in the development of sophisticated consumer oriented services through commercial carriers has had three years in which More Money has been lost than was made in the previous history of the airline history Quot Clinton said. Quot and i can Tell you from my study very Little of that is your Clinton and his aides made Clear that the administration did not intend to fight subsidies with subsidies but would seek to limit european governments contributions to Airbus industries the multinational consortium building the jetliners. The president said he had instructed the . Trade representative Mickey Kantor to Monitor International agreements that would curb Airbus subsidies. Quot we need a commitment not to shield ourselves from Competition but to Reward ourselves when we really compete and win Quot Clinton told 3,000 Boeing employees who gathered to hear him speak in a hangar and applauded him warmly. Quot countries which do that win a Clinton said. Quot those which done to arc punished. And we can no longer afford to wait for 10 years while someone does something to us that we do not respond citing declining commercial air plane sales Boeing said 27,000 of its 141,500 workers nationwide will be Laid off. About 15,000 of those lost jobs arc to be in Washington state. Quot a lot of these layoffs would not have been announced had it not been for the $26 billion that the United states sat by and let Europe plow into Airbus Over the last several years a Clinton said. Quot. So we re going to try to change the rules of the Linton who met with executives of the commercial airlines and their manufacturers after his speech said he supported establishment of a commission that would examine the standing of the airline Industry. He said he would ask such a group to make suggestions to revive the Industry within 90 Days after it is created by cast responsibility for the Industry a problems on the europeans instead of on problems the Federal government could remedy by offering tax Breaks or subsidies to the aircraft Industry portraying himself As a Champion of the Miu dec class employees who will lose Tea jobs. Quot other nations follow targeted str Gies and partnerships to Pierce markets which you had dominated under a tree Market system but with which you cow not compete Quot he said. European suds aies Tor me Mummy going by in in Angl Ine rules of not compete he Saiu. Gore gets vocal in support of Clinton economic plan by John King tinting their Cross country tag team sales pitch for the Reward he said would be lower Long term interest 3 by John King Al political writer Kansas City to. A after an hour of familiar questions and familiar answers vice president Al Gore decided to raise his voice literally in support of the administrations new economic plan. Quot it gives us the change we need As a nation to put the past behind us to break out of the gridlock Quot Gore said vehemently a and in full voice a monday night at the close of a Missouri town meeting. Quot it will happen Only when you decide personally to be a part of the change that you want to see in Gore Fiew to Kansas City for the televised town meeting after a morning appearance with Clinton in California. The president and vice president were continuing their Cross country tag team sales pitch for the economic program unveiled last week. The vice president broke no new ground in Fielding questions about Clinton a plans for the Economy health car Reform higher taxes and Job retraining programs but was enthusiastically received by an audience he implored to pressure their lawmakers to support the Clinton plan. Quot we re at a Crossroads in the history of America Quot Gore said. A we need you to Send a message loudly and clearly that you the american people Are ready for change even when it requires Tough gone acknowledged hat All americans would pay More in Energy taxes in the Clinton plan hut said most of the Burden fell on the wealthy and corporations the Reward he said would be lower Long term Wie rates that would make Homes cars and other consume goods More affordable he he told an unemployed construction worker that stimulus provisions would create new Highway Bridge work As soon As Congress gave the plan Tuuu j Proval and the vice president assured a. The health care reforms would include dental nov cd a one Man in the audience said he was willing top More in taxes but so optically asked Gore if the aim traction was committed to Root out government and fraud. Quot we sure Gore said Savin he won id it enc Raj Iesu meet with the governments inspectors watchdogs at major Federal departments and to ask them for ideas on eliminating wasteful it pen
