Congress wrestles with expanded catastrophic health coverage for seniors
The House backs a broad Medicare overhaul including outpatient, physician, nursing, hospice, mental health and drug coverage with a1,117 annual premium cap plus income-based surcharges. Senate favors a modest plan without drug benefits. Projected costs vary from 1 to 7 billion in year one, risking a Medicare trust fund deficit by 2005. Republicans seek compromise for a 1992 version that costs beneficiaries 468 annually and promotes private long term care insurance. The goal remains affordable protection for seniors against protracted illness.
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Ronald Reagan
Congress
Otis Bowen
Secretary of Health and Human Services
House
Congressional Budget Office
Treasury Department
Parking Space Power and Capitol Makeover
The Milwaukee Journal notes Washington focuses on the Capitol parking lot fate. An architect proposes removing the asphalt for 350 lawmakers journalists and aides, replacing it with pink granite parkland and fountains echoing the 1890s plaza. Elites resist, fearing reduced perks but facing a reality of transit and pooling.
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Washington
Capitol
Alcohol: Reagan era call to curb drug-promoting ads
Glenn Penner of Torrance, Cabif., cites President Reagan to denounce alcohol advertising as fueling drug use. He links alcohol to 66 percent of fatal accidents and 70 percent of murders, urging policy changes including stopping ads and taxing producers to cover social costs.
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Glenn Penner
Torrance
Cabif
Ronald Reagan
Ann Landers
Penner
Debate on TV alcohol content and tax policy
Michael McManus voices concern over TV programs showing alcohol abuse and alcoholism to highlight consequences. Proposals include reducing ads and content changes, plus a major tax shift to raise billions by taxing beer and wine more like liquor to cut the federal deficit.
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NCTV
America
Radecki
Treasury
Air deregulation nears sacred cow status in Reagan era
Liberal critics say deregulation creates chaos in aviation after ten years of mixed results. Fare reductions arose as carriers failed or merged, flights grow busier, delays rise, and near misses are debated while air traffic remains tightly controlled. Deregulation’s intent to lower costs is framed as benefiting the public, despite turmoil.
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Jimmy Carter
Civil Aeronautics Board
Alfred Kahn
Reagan
Kahn
New York
San Francisco
East Warwhoop
Nebraska
Big Daddy
TV Evening News
Drug tests move ahead as public pushback grows
The piece argues mandatory federal drug testing for 30,000 workers is ill timed and relies on coercion. It contrasts the temperance movement’s noncoercive success with today’s crackdown, noting declines in cocaine use and broader shifts against drugs and excess alcohol.
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U.S. Transportation Department
W.J. Rorabaugh
Maine
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
James Q. Wilson
Why pay politicians who run for president
Raymond Coffey argues that incumbent leaders and lawmakers running for the presidency should forfeit their salaries during campaigns. He notes senators, representatives, and the vice president are part time while seeking votes, fund raisers, and national tours. He cites current pay levels and questions why they are paid for full-time duties when they spend campaign time in Iowa New Hampshire and beyond.
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White House
Paul Simon
Minois
Joseph Biden
Delaware
Albert Gore Jr
Tennessee
Bob Dole
Kansas
Jack Kemp
New York
Richard Gephardt
Missouri
New Hampshire
Congress
Iowa
Hollywood
Dole
Town
Capitol Hill
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Raymond Coffey
Chicago Tribune
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