The evening is a benefit for the Arthur Ashe Foundation, which supports youth education and health-care initiatives.

When she does discuss issues, she speaks about how the city's health-care initiatives, particularly toward women, need to be revamped.

A person who observed her relations with Congress has since said, "There was a skepticism on the Hill about her role"-as head of the health-care initiative.

Boyer argues that Barack Obama's health-care initiative would be in much better shape if Kennedy were around to deploy his formidable political skills to rope in centrist Democrats.

President Clinton's health-care initiative was to have been a delicate balance between Government regulation and free-market competition.

Bradley has made the costlier pledges so far: his ambitious universal health-care initiative would by itself use the entire surplus, according to some estimates.

I'll have to do some research before I can judge whether what he says about Ted torpedoing his health-care initiative has a reasonable factual basis.

The measure would spend about $2.7 billion on various health-care initiatives, among them subsidies aimed at raising the salaries of health-care workers.

In 1994, the Clinton administration abandoned the health-care initiative and released all documents from the working group.

The Washington Post wrote that "President Obama's health-care initiative was nearly consumed by the furor" over the end-of-life care provision that would allow physician reimbursement for counseling.