Editorial: No hasty decision on drugs for Medicare seniors
An editorial urges Congress not to rush a drug benefit for 40 million seniors. It argues managed care already provides affordable drug access, as HMOs offer drug benefits and cost controls. It calls recalibrating Medicare incentives to steer seniors toward HMOs while limiting open-ended subsidies and price controls.
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Congress
Clinton
Medicare
Washington
White House
MD Medical
Waco test debate pits openness against secrecy
The special counsel overseeing the Waco confrontation tests live gunfire and aircraft to review FBI actions at the Branch Davidian compound. Justice Department lawyers and relatives urge public access, while the counsel favors secrecy to protect sensitive findings.
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Ween
Waco
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Branch Davidian
Texas
Justice Department
Branch Davidion
Tax breaks for Educational Savings Accounts debated in Congress
Dallas based analysis notes bipartisan interest to allow up to 2000 dollars yearly into ESAs for kindergarten through 12th grade and college. It cites Clinton vetoes and Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that most benefits would reach middle income families and public school students.
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Dallas
Congress
Clinton
Joint Committee On
Taxion
Joint Committee On Taxation
Esas
Sens
Paul Coverdell
Robert Toricelli
D-N.j
House
Richard Gephardt
Gephardt
Kitty Windham
Aiken Elementary
Chamber of Commerce
Janet Temples Blanks
Education Savings Accounts face sharp public critique
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn argues that Education Savings Accounts undermine public schools, favor private and sectarian options, and fail to address core funding and quality issues. He notes most Americans support reforms like smaller classes, better training, and safer schools, not privatization schemes. He urges Congress to resist ESA proposals and uphold democratically run public education.
Flag relocation proposal stirs regional letter to editor
A letter writers advocate moving the Confederate flag to Lincoln Memorial Washington DC to fly over a historic battlefield at Rivers Edge State Park amid four counties. The writer notes cemeteries for Confederate soldiers and Allendale Hamp ton Colleton Bamberg counties and calls for a respectful display. A separate column lauds Kitty Windham teacher influence and civic contributor H A McClearen resigning from the Election Commission with praise from Lou Grant Hartwell and Janet Temples Blanks.
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Lincoln
Washington, D.C
New Ellenton
Rivers Edge State Park
Colleton
Hampton
Allendale
Bamberg
Ayer
Parks and Recreation Department
Glenn A. Ayer
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Jeffrey B. Wallace
Ellen C. Priest
Angela R. Nalley
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James R. Bennett Jr
Clinton Kow
Dorman E. Cordell
National Center For Policy Analysis
NCPA
N. Central Expr
Suite
Barry W. Lynn
America
Congressional
Education
Americans United For Separation of Church and State
Americans United
C Street NE
Buck Grant
Mac
Lou Grant
Hartwell
Aiken
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