A growing hemorrhage

...in reponse to a question, "That's our long-term goal...

...and Kennedy, D-Mass...

...If this bill or require businesses with poor coverage to make imbecomes law: provements...

...The Senate rather easily accepted when they need full-time work), or unemployable...

...According to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hearings should focus...

...Both nominees are men of pronounced conservative political philosophy...

...no health insurance...

...The abiding flaw in study, one million Americans were denied medical care in the American experiment remains the relation between the 1983, and someone in another four million families needed races, black and white...

...toward racial equality may no longer be as centered in the Action, if it comes, would not be premature...

...they'd done no studies, no quick surveys of their mem- on the health-care front...

...For example, two exceptions are not likel sented hospitals, organized labor, a health-related business to be acted on this year...

...Paul interesting...

...will be virtually automatic...

...Jake Pickle of Texas wanted to...

...tonin Scalia...

...blanche for simple political partisanship" ("Who Will Judge That is not the case, obviously, with Mr...

...Congress is constitutional crisis...

...requested by Jackson...

...But we The National Association of Manufacturers faulted the plan know it's an impossibility at the present time...

...that it be expanded in a variety of ways...

...The Supreme Court has been at the heart aware of the problem...

...In the Atlantic coast city of Constitution itself and provoked our greatest arld bloodiest Washington, D.C., there are signs that the U.S...

...Since 1980, courtroom as previously, any slipping back toward institu- the number of people without a way to pay for health care has tional complacency would be national tragedy...

...it doesn't coverage for laid-off workers for four months...

...pay for health care of any kind, from any source...

...it (Gradison, R-Ohio...

...The ideology of candidates for the Supreme latest judicial nominations - William H. Rehnquist and,An- Court or the federal bench must be weighed with other factors...

...age always poised on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, it is But then, like quite a few other institutions, it deliberately and extremely easy - if one so desires - to rationalize all sorts of frequently hires people for 19.5 hours a week to get around the government controls as merely prohibiting shouts of "Fire...

...nesses, holds a position similar to the hospitals: supportive of Sister Caritas Geary of the Catholic Health Association echoed the concept, but seeking some modifications...

...Their conservative Republican Will Gradison can agree on both, the ; members in those states had not been calling them with prob- problem and the solution, there just may be hope for progress _ lems...

...At least some scholars consider him distinctly BENEFITS MARCH TO THE FRINGE "result-oriented," an odd trait in view of conservative sensitivity about consistency of principles...

...All three Seattle hospitals Committee has learned, Representative Stark replied with a providing most of that area's charity care have large and smile, "On health and human services, `a little more time' growing deficits...

...House Committee on Ways and Means heard fourteen witnesses support the proposal...

...Justice Rehnquist, in particular, is known for writing opinions that seem less like a A GROWING HEMORRHAGE judicial weighing of complicated arguments than an advocate's brief...

...and hospitals know...

...The rich are getting stuck with the bills...

...Heinz, R-Pa...

...what they'll do about it in an election of the struggle to repair that national evil, and though progress year is an open question...

...Racism is a stain that marred the medical care but didn't get it...

...Reagan's two the Judges...

...No one questions the legal competence of both Simon (D-Ill...

...National health...

...It shouldn't be...

...As a result, millions of Americans have no way to of the nine states that have it...

...Subsidized health insurance "risk pools" would be set up afford to "buy into" the new risk pools...

...The University of WashingThe second area is that in which the claims of national ton, for example, boasts that it has a generous policy on fringe security are pitted against those of individual citizenship...

...nationwide euphemistically described as "medically uninThere are, in fact, two specific areas on which the Senate sured...

...It Several of the witnesses who spoke in favor of the bill asked is not alone...

...Moreover, they warned, it "would be an steps politically...

...NANCY AMIDEI bers to back up their claims...

...policy...

...It is com- sideration" in the Senate's exercise of confirmation, just as it monly said, therefore, that their confirmation by the Senate is in the president's exercise of appointment...

...avoid providing health coverage...

...has introduced the wouldn't require businesses to cover new groups of workers, "Health Care Improved Access Act of 1986...

...onerous burden, particularly on small companies, and would And so this year's version of addressing the issue gets negatively impact the expansion of job-based health bene- underway: picking off small pieces of the puzzle, trying to fits...

...Court revealed that, as a clerk, he had drawn up a memo for The remaining one-fourth include the families of people who Chief Justice Jackson arguing that racial segregation did not are unemployed, under-employed (e.g., working part-time offend the Constitution...

...Two witnesses duced a USHealth Program Act of 1986 calling for national opposed the proposal...

...And here the question of ideology becomes more But it would be healthy if the Senate made it clear, as Sen...

...risen by a staggering 42 percent...

...First, many of the new ity and gerrymandering, as well as in many previous cases, jobs being created by our economy are low-paying jobs that do whatever its plausibility in those areas, echoes the old states' not include health benefits...

...federal costs would be limited to the demonstra• Employers would be required to continue existing health tion projects plus the tax breaks for small businesses...

...coverage and/or with medical conditions that make them ineligible for regular coverage...

...When the likes of liberal Democrat Pete Stark and been operating for a decade), they said they didn't know...

...On June 9, in a crowded hearing room, the Subcommittee "The N word," namely, National health something - on Health of the U.S...

...and Stark, D-Calif...

...they are not Rehnquist's explanation that this had merely been an exercise eligible for Medicaid, and unable to afford private insurance...

...The acknowledged, when asked, that of course they would prefer American Medical Association, while not among the wit- to be working for something better...

...And third, all of the public sources of health-care in a crowded theater...

...and representatives the unemployed become reemployed within four months...

...They are among the 37 million people Both nominees need to be examined on this score...

...11 July 1986: 391...

...It needs more study according to the Chamber's repreand other health-care providers who treat more than just the sentative: "I think we need to give it a little more time...

...Judge Scalia has appeared more willing to uphold conservative principle even N THE Pacific Northwest state of Washington, Senator Jim when it might not serve conservative "result...

...They represented the National Associa- health insurance by 1992...

...Like hospital charity care, or develop a plan to provide health another recent bipartisan proposal to cover the health-care insurance to all their uninsured residents...

...one expects to exhaust its reserves within a means, 'don't do it - ever.' year - at which point it will have to turn sick people away...

...meet a cost issue without spending money, watching as, But when they were asked whether this had been the case in health-care costs absorb more and more of the GNP, and more those states which already have one of the bill's most signifi- and more sick people go without care...

...Conservatism, McDermott has been trying to persuade his colleagues in while declaring its opposition to government interference in the state legislature to do something for that state's estithe life of the citizen, has frequently displayed a good deal of mated 600,000 working people and their dependents who have reluctance to let the citizen interfere in the life of government...

...take on the broader health-care needs of people who can't...

...and it wouldn't create in every state for people without access to employment-based any new federal health agencies...

...N0 ONE AT the hearing addressed the plan in the context of...

...One is civil rights...

...Manion least of which is their dissatisfaction with Roe v. Wade...

...In an benefits: anyone working half-time or more gets full benefits...

...In appears to turn on ludicrous points - and ideological ones - arguing for a senatorial discussion of their ideological leanthat is because the man has no substantial legal accom- ings, we are not, as we wrote last January 31, proposing "carte plishments on which the debate could turn...

...has said, that ideology is a "reasonable conthese individuals, or their personal integrity either...

...measure, introduced in the Indiana state senate, only involved Nominees Rehnquist and Scalia have many merits, not the privately donated copies...

...We all end up just doing what we can...

...How do you form the basis of (Nancy Amidei frequently reports on poverty, hunger, and your opposition if you haven't taken advantage of the history human services issues in these pages...

...They repre- insurance, plan, system, service, program - is rarely men-d tioned these days...

...attempts to take on one piece of the problem and no more: how • And demonstration projects would explore ways to lower to let hospitals serve people in poor health who don't have insurance costs for small businesses...

...Several of those who'd testified, tion of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce...

...good health insurance, without going out of business...

...Ideological attitudes toward the state and financing - especially Medicare and Medicaid - have cut the demands of realpolitik will be extremely important if back on what they cover, how much they pay, and who Commonweal: 390 qualifies...

...Three-fourths of those withThe 1971 hearings on Mr...

...Edward Roybal [D-Calif...

...Ron Dellums (D-Calif.] has group, academics, the health insurance industry, repre- introduced a National Health Service Act every Congress for a sentatives of four states, an organization representing rural decade, and Rep...

...By most standards the In an attempt to do something about this problem, a biparti- bill's provisions are modest...

...Second, it is increasingly common rights rationale and could provide the needed nudge for a for employers to hire people for less than full-time, in order to rollback on racial equality...

...has just intropeople, and the Catholic Health Association...

...coverage isn't very long (its sponsors note that 70 percent off Riegle, D-Mich...

...States would have to establish a mechanism to pay for the need for a national health plan of some kind...

...costs of pregnant women with incomes below the poverty line, • Self-employed people would get tax breaks designed to or the study requested by the president of ways to meet the encourage them to provide health insurance for their employ- catastrophic health-care costs of the elderly, this proposal ees...

...Rehnquist's appointment to the out any coverage are working people and their dependents...

...Four months of continued health san group of senators (Durenberger, R-Minn...

...Unfortunately, Rehnquist's support of Three factors account for most of the increase in people "judicial restraint" in the recent cases involving homosexual- without a way to pay for health care...

...If the debate about Mr...

...One long-time, on the grounds that it "would discourage employment-based health activist went a little further: "We don't even want to health insurance and would interfere with state and local pro- raise the possibility," she said, "saying it kills even the little grams now in place...

...But this is an election cant features in place, namely some form of state-wide risk year, and movement on even part of the problem is not to be pool (those in Connecticut and Minnesota, for example, have sneered at...

...The Senate confirmation hearings for these two Supreme Court positions should be genuinely probing Health-care funding and, yes, ideological...