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Offers information on President Bill Clinton's health reform plan and tells how it could affect the medical care that Americans get. Basic package; Health alliances; How plan affects workers; Standard benefits; How it would affect workers with no insurance coverage and those who already do have coverage; Help for the self-employed; Cost of plan to companies; Mental-health benefits; More.

Focuses on President Bill Clinton's proposed health reform plan, the American Health Security Act. Various elements of the plan that have leaked out; Features which have already come under attack; How Clinton has been caught in the crossfire of competing political realities; Sharp limits on private health insurance premiums; Results of `U.S. News' poll on American attitudes. INSETS: The new standard benefits package.;Types of plans.;Financing package.;Points of controversy.

Reports on President Bill Clinton's health care plan, which would offer a new package of benefits set by the government and would compete to offer the highest quality of care at the lowest price. Costs of implementing the plan; Unveiling date; Proposals; How companies would be made to pay; What companies would be forced into the plan. INSET: Changing health care roles..

Examines the heart of President Clinton's health care reform that boasts basic coverage for everybody. `Core benefits package'; How producing the new insurance policy is producing trauma for the administration; Vicious political fight over whether the benefits package will cover such items as elective abortion; The interconnected parts of health reform; Interest of health care providers; Details. INSET: The selling of the president's health care..., by Matthew....

Focuses on six plans that are competing with President Bill Clinton's health reform package. Three biggest issues at the heart of the debate--universal coverage, paying for reform, and cost containment; Outlines and sponsors of six plans; The Health Security Act; The American Health Security Act; Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act; Managed Competition Act; Affordable Health Care Now; Consumer Choice Health Security Act.

Comments on the United States Democratic Party's health care reform proposal. Views of President George Bush about the proposal; Democratic Party's claim that the proposal will lead to faster national health insurance; Impact to the private insurance sector of Bush's health care reform proposal to use tax incentives to spread coverage among the uninsured and to use market-oriented measures to restrain medical costs; Reasons why a national health insurance be disastrous in the United States.

Highlights some of the latest wrinkles that the Clinton administration is struggling with before its health care reform plan goes to Congress. Trying to bring the plan into final balance; Still adjusting the formula for what individuals will pay for health coverage; Scrambling for ways to avoid open-ended drains on the Treasury; Who is making the decisions on the changes; More. INSET: Clinton's plan: Last-minute changes before the curtain rises..

Discusses how President Bill Clinton's long-delayed health care reform plan is evolving into a strange new animal, as top administration officials sketch a package that is an odd cross between market-oriented health reforms and stepped-up government regulation. Specifics on proposals that top administration officials will hand the president; Key details that have yet to be worked out; Debate over corporate alliances.

Questions the cost of President Bill Clinton's health reform plan. Reasons health reform's costs are so uncertain; Medicaid's leaking money mill; Role of economic incentives under Clinton's `managed competition' plan; Words of caution for health care reformers; Clinton's three-step plan; More.

Predicts that universal health coverage for Americans will not be achieved in 1994. Unique blend of policies and politics needed to achieve it; Various proposals for coverage; Key which may lie in whether there can be an agreement on a requirement that employers contribute to covering their workers--the so-called employer mandate; More.

Discusses the dangers of including security in government programs aimed at helping Americans survive in the global economy. The risk of the security issue to President Clinton; Innovative approaches that the administration is considering as it revamps federal aid to `dislocated' workers; Criticism of Clinton's health plan.

Focuses on President Bill Clinton's health reform proposals. Why, for the program to work, the nation needs a productivity revolution in health care; Cautious optimists who applaud recent gains but wonder just how much in long-term savings the nation can reasonably expect; Comments by Thomas Pyle, CEO of MetLife HealthCare and William Baumol, director of the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University; Effect of aging population on health care.

Offers excerpts from President Bill Clinton's responses to questions about his health proposal. Why he has such faith the government can run the new system well; How plan could affect those who have good health-insurance coverage now; Why Hillary Clinton appears so adversarial toward doctors; Whether a Health Security card might invite privacy invasions of patient records; More.

Opinion. Focuses an an arcane feature found in President Bill Clinton's forthcoming health reform plan. Called the `interalliance trust fund,' it is a mechanism for redistributing tens of billions of health care dollars around the country each year. Trouble which would arise when it came time to divvy up the money among health alliances; Need for a `management impact statement' as suggested by Donald Kettl, author of `Improving Government Performance: An Owner's Manual.'

Discusses President Bill Clinton's health-reform plan, emphasizing health-price controls and spending limits, the one area of regulation that is still undecided. The debate stems from the realization that Clinton's broad health-reform will not save any money fast--if at all. Its new brand of competition; The added costs to government and businesses of his broad plan; Cutting the pace of health-price inflation; A longer-term rate setting for hospitals and physicians; Problems.

Explores the question of how much power over commerce should rest with the states versus the federal government. Debate which pits states that want a fair amount of control over the health system against many of the nation's businesses; Conflict which stems from the dual nature of many reform plans being debated; Formation of the National Uniformity Coalition to fight health-financing reforms; Battle over ERISA--the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Opinion. Focuses on health alliances, the proposed insurance purchasing pools in President Bill Clinton's health reform plan. Whether they are really pivotal to making a reformed health system work; Pros and cons of alliances; Probability that some form of alliances will be included in a final reform package.

Focuses on the decision by the Business Roundtable, composed of CEOs of America's 200 largest companies, to cross President Bill Clinton and endorse the rival health reform plan of Tennessee Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper. Lack of a bill that strikes a proper balance in terms of who pays, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Robert Patricelli; Clinton's effort to woo the Roundtable.