WASHINGTON — Insisting the
“bottom line” on health-care reform
has not changed, President Clinton
Wednesday released a retooled ver
sion of his plan that puts off the guar
antee of universal coverage for a year
and sets limits on federal subsidies for
medical care.
The president and his wife and
adviser, Hillary Rodham Clinton, de
livered their 1300-page Health Secu
rity Plan to a cheering crowd of legis
lators in the Capitol’s historic Statu
ary Hall. .
Clinton laid down a straightfor
ward challenge: “Just one simple re
quest: I ask that before the Congres;
finishes its work next year, you pas;
and 1 sign a bill that will actually
guarantee health security to every cit
izen of this great country.”
He said his basic goal remain:
unchanged — guaranteeing a stan
dard set of benefits to every Ameri
can, calling it “my bottom line.”
“When it is over, we must hav
Clinton revises health plan
WASHINGTON — Insisting the
“bottom line” on health-care reform
has not changed, President Clinton
Wednesday released a retooled ver
sion of his plan that puts off the guar
antee of universal coverage for a year
and sets limits on federal subsidies for
medical care.
The president and his wife and
adviser, Hillary Rodham Clinton, de
livered their 1,300-page Health Secu
rity Plan to a cheering crowd of legis
lators in the Capitol’s historic Statu
ary Hall.
Clinton laid down a straightfor
ward challenge: “Just one simple re
quest: I ask that before the Congress
finishes its work next year, you pass
and I sign a bill that will actually
guarantee health security to every cit
izen of this great country.”
He said his basic goal remains
unchanged — guaranteeing a stan
dard set of benefits to every Ameri
can, calling it “my bottom line.”
“When it is over, wc must have
achieved comprehensive health care
security for all Americans or the en
deavor will not have been worth the
effort,” Clinton said.
Still,bowing to the political reality
of the long debate ahead, Clinton now
hopes to ensure every American is
guaranteed a standard set of benefits
by the start of 1998.
And trying to balance competing
demands for more generous health
coverage against calls for tighter cost
controls, Clinton is proposing to ex
pand benefits in some areas while
slowing the phase-in of others. He
also has agreed to cap subsidies for
small businesses and low-income
workers.
Mrs. Clinton, signaling the long
road ahead, called the legislation “a
framework off of which to work” and
urged legislators to subject all com
peting health proposals before Con
gress to the “highest level of scruti
ny.”
She expressed hope for a vigor
ous, honest debate that sheds light and
not just heat.”
“This will be, for the next month,
an opportunity for all of us to work
together to go beyond politics as usu
al, to make it clear to the American
people that this president and this
Congress hear them and are commit
ted to solving their problems in a very
real way,” Mrs. Clinton said.
Offering a preview of the battles
ahead, however, House Minority
Leader Bob Michel, D-Ill., cautioned
that there are “substantive and pro
found pol icy differences” over how to
proceed and that today’s ceremony
was “just the beginning of a long,
tortuous process.”
“What we owe the people is a
promise that we will not worry about
authorship and that we will work to
gether on a bipartisan basis for what is
good for Americans,” said Senate
Republican Leader Bob Dole.
Fires blaze through Southern California
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. —
Fires fanned by fierce Santa Anawinds
torched dozens of homes and thou
sands of acres throughout Southern
California Wednesday.
Gusts to 70 mph turned spot fires
into maelstroms and pushed
firefighters to the limit. Traffic was
chaotic, roads and schools were closed,
and a smoky pall dimmed the sun over
downtown Los Angeles, where winds
dropped ashes from fires miles away.
“We have what we call a blow-up
condition at this time,” said Norm
Plott, a Fire Department spokesman
in Ventura County, where a 15,000
acre arson fire was raging out of con
trol.
Overwhelmed Firefighters ran out
of water and called for reinforcements,
and helicopters made daring water
drops in futile efforts to douse burning
homes.
At least 12 major fires were report
ed burning from Ventura County,
northwest of Los Angeles, to the
Mexican border. No letup was in sight
with temperatures reaching the 80s in
some areas Wednesday.
The fire around Altadena, a heavi
ly populated area northeast of Los
Angeles where homes can cost
$500,000, burned 1,000 acres of Sand
Gabriel Mountains foothills. Author
ities confirmed that 45 homes have
been destroyed.
One of the largest fires was a
11,400-acre blaze that damaged or
destroyed 28 homes and injured at
least five residents in Riverside County
east of Los Angeles, authorities said.
Paying for health care
New federal expenses and revenues under
President Clinton's revised Health Security Plan
from 1995 to 2000, in billions:
Sources of funds
Uses of funds
AP/Wm. J. Castello
Couple cited in infant’s death
HUMPS I HAD, N.Y.■— A wom
an who helped bury her baby alive
to save her husband the shame of
supporting another man’s child was
found out when she became preg
nant again, police said.
The newborn was found Tues
day with a pacifier in her mouth,
buried behind a Long Island room
ing house.
Urbelina Emiliano, 23, and her
husband, Fortino Perez, 28, plead
ed innocent to second-degree mur
der charges. They were ordered
held without bail pending a court
appearance Thursday.
“Apparently the motive was that
Mr. Perez was not the father and
they didn’t want the baby to come
between them,” Detective Lt. Frank
Guidice said. “They didn’t want
him to suffer the embarrassment.”
A law enforcement source,
speaking condition of anonymity,
said both Emiliano and Perez told
police they killed the baby.
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STATE WIRE
Governor Nelson says Chinese impressed with Nebraska beef
OMAHA—Nebraska beef is “the
door opener” for developing trade
opportunities with China and its pop
ulation of 1.2 billion people. Gov.
Ben Nelson said Wednesday.
A Nebraska trade delegation gave
about 50 Chinese leaders and busi
ness leaders a taste of Nebraska beef
at a special dinner Tuesday, and the
diners were impressed, Nelson said in
a telephone conference call from
Beijing, where he is leading a 10-day
trade mission.
“To say that China is a big market
is an understatement,” Nelson said.
China is moving to a market-ori
ented economy and entering a con
sumer age that could provide many
opportunities to sell Nebraska prod
ucts in that country. Nelson said.
Beef is available in China from
such places as Argentina, Australia
and the Netherlands, but that beef
differs from Nebraska beef and the
diners at the Nebraska dinner noticed
the difference. Nelson said.
“It cuts differently and it’s not
stringy... particularly when you cut it
and eat it with chopsticks,” Nelson
said.
SPORTS WIRE
Piazza unanimously voted National League Rookie of the Year
LOS ANGELES—Mike Piazza, a
62nd-round draft pick who had one of
the finest rookie seasons ever, was
unanimously voted National League
Rookie of the Year on Wednesday.
Piazza, who won the Los Angeles
Dodgers catching job in spring train
ing, hit .318 with 35 home runs and
112 RBIs. His average was the high
est of an y NL Rook ie of the Year since
the award began in 1947, and was the
first winner to drive in 100 runs.
His home-run total is the second
most for an NL rookie winner, trail ing
only Frank Robinson’s 38 for the Cin
cinnati Reds in 1956. The only other
NL rookie with more homers was
Wally Berger of the 1930 Boston
Braves.
Piazza,25,became the 13th Dodg
er to win the award and the second
straight, following Eric Karros last
year.
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valuable message.
“I think one of the factors is that the
program isn’t going to be dark and
dismal,” he said. “Who says helping
people can’t be enjoyable? There’s
nothing wrong with a fund-raiser or
public awareness event that’s also
enjoyable.”
But Hird said sleepout participants
would be too comfortable to identify
with the homeless.
“These people are out there in their
$300 sleeping bags, nice clothes and
long underwear, and they have no
idea of what it’s like to be homeless.
“Most homeless people sleep with
what they have on,” Hird said. “They
are not as concerned with how cold or
how hot it is as much as they are
worried about living through the
night.”
Sleepout participants can bring
sleeping bags and cardboard boxes to
sleep in, but tents and cook stoves are
not allowed.
Janovec said many homeless peo
ple lived in more comfort than would
the 400 sleepout participants who are
expected to stay through the night.
- “Many of the homeless people will
be staying in shelters,” he said. “They
will sleep in mattresses and beds.
They won’t have a cold sandwich.
They will have a hot meal. They can
watch TV, attend chapel or talk to a
counselor.”
Hird said sleepout organizers were
ignoring the danger of homelessness.
Many homeless people carry weap
ons to protect themselves, he said.
Although Hird said he disapproved
of the concept of the event, he did not
dispute the hind-raising benefits.
But he said better ways to raise the
money existed, such as renting the
Great Hall in the Haymarket and in
viting and feeding all the city’s home
less people.
“It would be one night in a warm,
safe space,” Hird said. “We could
meet with the people and talk with
them.”
In this way, the homeless would be
helped and not degraded, he said.
Last year, Janovec said the sleepout
raised $25,000. This year, he said the
goal was $30,000.
The money raised at the event will
go to the three primary shelters in
Lincoln: the Freeway Youth Station
for runaway youth, Friendship Home
for battered wives and children, and
Peoples City Mission for men and
families.
