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...giant health care programs, which cover 75 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, would not be allowed to grow faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket items if he has any realistic chance of balancing the budget," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Since Medicaid and Medicare have had big percentage increases in spending in recent years, this is not a revolutionary idea." That theory won't stave off gripes from the health care industry, from worried patients or from die-hard liberals in the President's own party. Fueling the fears of Medicare...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In the second elaborate White House ceremony in two days, President Clinton signed a bill Wednesday that will make it easier for Americans to obtain health coverage. Although a far cry from his 1992 promise of universal health coverage, TIME's Jef McAllister says: "Clinton has to take considerable pleasure because the bill signings are a successful punctuation mark in casting Gingrich and the Republicans as extremists." Congressional Republicans, says McAllister, faced with increasing pressure from districts dissatisfied with the government gridlock, felt obliged to compromise and pass welfare, health and minimum wage bills. Part of a three...
...years in jail for misusing a $300,000 loan obtained in the name of her Master Marketing advertising company from a lender backed by the Small Business Administration. "The judge was obviously more sympathetic to Tucker than to Susan McDougal, which seems a bit unusual," says TIME's Jef McAllister. "One would think that a sitting governor would act with more malice aforethought than Susan McDougal." McDougal was also ordered to repay the loan with interest and a $5,000 fine. After the sentence was handed down, she gave a tearful, two-minute speech asking the judge for mercy...
...stick the taxpayers with the tab," Clinton said. Exceptions will be granted to women with legitimate reasons for withholding the father's name, such as fear of abuse, Clinton told the American Nurses Association. The idea is not new. "This reform has been proposed in every welfare bill," reports Jef McAllister, "including the most recent legislation vetoed by the President. Clinton is backing an idea that he knows is popular to show he cares about welfare reform." Noting that his Administration intends to "make responsibility a way of life, not an option," Clinton also announced a plan to establish...
McAllister is flying less these days (mostly because Warren Christopher doesn't travel as much as his predecessor did) but working just as hard. "Jef has the busiest beat in the Washington bureau," says senior editor Johanna McGeary, who covered State for TIME for seven years. "Besides the big pieces he's called upon to do ((like this week's analysis of the shortcomings of Bill Clinton's foreign policy team)), we rely on him for every crisis around the world that needs a Washington angle." The queries pour in from the New York office all week long: What...