If the President cannot persuade Congress to pass a $16 billion jobs bill, can he sell a health-care proposal costing two or three times that?

Mr. Clinton said today that he still wanted Congress to approve his health-care proposals this year.

Obama was able, for example, to give a reasonably complete description of his tax and health-care proposals.

But it does not specify what stance bishops should take on a health-care proposal that includes abortion coverage.

Economists said fear of higher taxes and the uncertainty over the impact of the Administration's health-care proposals were the main reasons behind the slow growth.

He, too, has a health-care proposal, but his would require an increase in the Medicare payroll tax.

Moynihan recommended that we first do welfare reform, and spend the next two years developing a health-care proposal.

Many health-care proposals in Congress and state legislatures rely heavily on managed care for cost control.

Significant health-care proposals lie virtually untouched and the Legislature cannot even agree on minor criminal justice initiatives.

"What the hell was he doing setting up another major government bureaucracy with his health-care proposals?"