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PAGE FOUR - Sapulpa (Okla.) Daily Herald, Monday, Nov.6, 1995
Editorially Speaking
Rabin’s murder
Israel, like America, has ballot boxes.
That means little to extremists who will stop at nothing -
from blowing up federal buildings full of innocent people
including small children to the assassination of elected leaders.
These extremists - monsters possessed of devils and turned
loose on all of us - have no remorse it seems as they strike
out against the very things democratic societies hold so dear -
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - and to live peace-
ably with our neighbors.
How tragic, and with an equal amount of irony, is the assas-
sination of a soldier who fought and helped win independence
for his country then went on to serve as its prime minister two
different terms.
Yitzhak Rabin’s casket was lifted from its bier outside par-
liament on Sunday and placed on a black truck to begin the
slow journey to his burial place on Mount Herzl, where the
life of the slain peacemaker would reach its tragic finale.
One million people in this nation of 5 million had filed past
the late prime minister’s coffin, which lay in state outside the
Knesset, the Associated Press reported — “children on par-
ents’ shoulders, soldiers, Israeli Arabs in flowing headdresses.
Many sobbed. Some fainted.”
Joining the procession of mourners, President Clinton stood
before Rabin’s flag-draped coffin, bowed his head in a black
skullcap and mouthed a silent prayer. We can imagine some
of his deepest thoughts.
Clinton squeezed the hand of his wife, Hillary, and fought
back tears. Behind him at the black bier outside the Knesset,
Israel’s parliament, stood former presidents Jimmy Carter and
George Bush.
Somehow, America is so akin to any such tragedy, especial-
ly one in Israel.
The simple wooden casket stood in a sea of wreaths, bou-
quets and notes from Israelis who filed past through the night.
Appearing at his arraignment handcuffed and unshaven,
according to the AP, 27-year-old Israeli law student Yigal
Amir said he killed Rabin at a peace rally Saturday night
because he wanted “to give our country to the Arabs.” “I did
this to stop the peace process,” he told Magistrate Dan Arbel
in a calm, even tone. “We need to be cold-hearted.”
Cold-hearted? What a trait for the extremist. What kind of
Israel could it be if that kind of mentality ever wins out?
Something even worse than the acts of extremist Adolph
Hitler, we imagine.
Rabin’s funeral also was to bring Jordan’s Hussein and
Mubarak of Egypt to Jerusalem for the first time — in defi-
ance of Arab opposition to visiting the disputed city, claimed
by the Palestinians as their capital.
“No way could I have imagined that this first visit would
be under these terribly tragic and sad personal circumstances,”
Hussein told President Ezer Weizman of Israel, who had
repeatedly invited him to Jerusalem.
“I lost a friend, a man I admired,” Hussein said. He called
Rabin “a great man and a soldier of peace.”
But even as Israelis grieved, the recriminations and finger-
pointing began.
The Shin Bet security service launched an internal inquiry
into how the gunman got so close to Rabin.
Along with anguished calls for unity, leaders of both the
left and right blamed each other for the tragedy.
. - The Sapulpa Herald
Death penalty
An interesting situation threatens to undermine Okla-
homa’s efforts to speed up the death penalty appeals
process.
Responding to complaints from constituents that too
much money is spent defending death row inmates, Con-
gress plans to significantly reduce the amount of money it
gives states for indigent defense services. That means
groups, such as Oklahoma’s Indigent Defense System, will
see their budgets substantially reduced because they rely
heavily on funding from the federal government.
Attorneys for the state’s indigent defense agency say
they will lose more than half of what they say is already
overburdened staff.
Ironically, the Oklahoma legislature, responding to com-
plaints from its own constituents, enacted a law last year
designed to speed up the death penalty appeals process to
be filed currently.
In doing that, the legislature immediately increased the
work load on the indigent defense system. Where attor-
neys could wait for one appeal to be decided before start-
ing another, they must now file multiple appeals simulta-
neously.
Now, the indigent defense system must try to deal with
an increased workload and a smaller staff....
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‘Sarah’
aids GOP
Medicare
proposal
It’s well known what “Harry and
Louise” did to President Clinton's
health care plan last year. This year,
less visibly, "Sarah” has been helping
Republicans win the Medicare fight.
“Sarah” is a fictional 67-year-old
woman created by the powerful Health-
care Leadership Council to make the
case that a typical senior citizen will
be much better off financially if she has
the choice of enrolling in a managed
care program rather than relying
solely on the current Medicare system.
The HLC also insists that offering
managed care choices can save the
government $70 billion over seven
years, more than double the estimate
of the Congressional Budget Office.
Capitol Roll Call
By
Morton
Kondrake
Newspaper
Enterprise
Association
Cutting through doubletalk
How soon they forget. Last Noyem
her, the party of Clinton, Daschle and
Gephardt suffered an historic thrash-
ing at the polls. Republicans won con-
trol of Congress for the first time in
four decades. They were given a clear
mandate from the American people to
change the course in which the gov-
ernment was headed.
Clinton and the Democrats made the
election of a year ago a referendum on
the GOP's “Contract With America.”
So when the electorate swept the Re-
publicans into power, they knew pre-
cisely what they were voting for.
They were voting to balance the fed
eral budget, to cut the most unneces-
sary federal spending, to slow the
growth of runaway entitlement pro-
grams. to reduce the federal tax burden
on families and businesses and to re-
shape the broken-down welfare system.
The Republicans have delivered on
their mandate. In a series of votes on
the House and Senate floor, the GOP
passed legislation that whittles the gov-
ernment’s annual deficit down to zero
between now and 2002, that holds the
growth of Medicare to 6.5 percent a
year (saving $270 billion in the process),
that returns $245 billion to American
taxpayers over seven years, and that
transforms welfare into a temporary,
rather than permanent, entitlement.
To President Clinton’s mind, the
GOP’s budget reconciliation bills
amount to “economic blackmail, pure
and simple." He threatens to veto the
entire package, which could cause the
government to shut down and default
on its debt obligations.
The president is willing to take that
risk, he said, because "I am not going
Viewpoint
By
Joseph
Perkins
The San Diego
Union-Tribune
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to let anybody hold Medicare or edu-
cation or the environment or the future
of this country hostage.
“I have proposed a plan,” he added,
“that cuts wasteful government spend-
ing and reflects our values. It is the
right way to balance the budget. By
contrast, the Republican Congress is
taking the wrong way.”
But how can Clinton be taken seri-
ously? Back in January, he promised
to "present a five-year plan to balance
the budget." But when he unveiled his
budget a month later, it called for $200
billion a year deficits well into the next
century. When Republicans brought
Clinton's bill to the Senate floor, it
mustered nary a vote, not even from
Democrats.
Since the president reneged on his
promise to present a balanced budget
plan, the GOP came up with one of its
own. And Clinton’s reaction was
simply to rail against the spending
cuts that the GOP proposed and warn
of the cataclysm that would result if
the budget was balanced in seven
years’ time.
Then Clinton did another flip-flop,
deciding that he would propose a bal-
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How dog became domestic
Long time ago in Africa, the dog
was the strongest animal among all
the other animals in the animal king-
dom. He was very brave, very wild
and very powerful. He was wilder
than the lion or even the tiger. He was
a good runner and because of his
power, everybody was scared to talk
to him or challenge him.
The members of the animal king-
dom had a code of rules to follow in
their daily conduct, but Mr. Dog
always refused to obey the rules
Because of his power, he started to
disobey all the rules laid down by the
king of animals. He started to fight
everyone. He became so tough and
powerful that he felt indestructable.
He did not have any self-control.
It happened that men wanted some
meat to eat, and they started to hunt
and kill animals for food. All the ani-
mals felt so sad about that, but they
did not know what to do. Due tothe
fact that animals were now being
hunted for food by men, all the ani-
mals were very unhappy and began to
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Young Line
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fight one another. Most of the com-
plaints that were brought to the king
was about the dog, but the king did not
know what to do since the dog was the
strongest of all the animals.
One day, the king of the human
saran has yet to be featured in
television ads the way “Harry and
Louise” were by the Health Insurance
Industry Association to defeat the 1994
Clinton health care reform plan, but a
chart describing her case history has
been used in countless congressional
and press briefings and lately has been
presented to seniors in focus groups
The "Sarah" briefing is especially ef
fective because it walks its audience
through the various facets of a senior’s
medical requirements to make its
points about cost.
The HLC — a coalition of big in-
surance companies, HMOs, hospitals,
drug companies, and the health arm
of the Business Roundtable — may
soon expose “Sarah” to a wider audi-
ence after the GOP Medicare reform
plan passes Congress as part of budget
reconciliation, is vetoed by President
Clinton, and becomes the object of re-
newed debate amid White House-con-
gressional negotiations.
The Clinton administration and con-
gressional Democrats dispute the
HLC’s argument and figures. “1 can
make up numbers, too," said Bruce
Vladek, head of the federal Health
Care Finance Administration, who as-
serted that GOP savings will ulti-
mately come out of the pockets of
senior citizens or diminish the quality
of care they receive.
“Under the Republican plan, the
government will spend $6,700 per ben-
eficiary in 2002, compared with $4,800
today," Vladek said in an interview,
“but at current growth rates the cost
would grow to $8,200. Of that $1,500 dif-
ference, a bit can be saved by greater
efficiencies, but most of it will be
passed on to beneficiaries.”
Democrats have succeeded in arous-
ing public opposition to GOP Medicare
cuts, but so far they’ve lost the lobby-
ing war in Washington
Gingrich managed to win support or
dampen opposition from such groups
as the American Medical Association,
the American Hospital Association,
to surrender one of their member to f"Amer'can Association of Re-
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At once, the king of the animal anow hospitals to form HMO-like
kingdom summoned all his people. He provider networks while escaping reg-
told them what the men said. Immedi- ulatory standards,
ately, there was a great uproar. “Give Democrats also charge that the GOP
the humans the dog,” the animals plan will “force" seniors into HMOs
shouted. “The dog has caused us great and will deprive them of their right to
pain. He is a trouble-maker, and we see the doctor of their choice, although
canot live in peace with him. Give him the GOP claims now — much as the
away.” The animals concurred. With Clinton administration did in 1994 —
such unanimous agreement, the king that its plan expands “choice" rather
of the animals sent for the men to tl,an “forcing" anything,
come and take the dog away. These Democratic claims are what
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Sarah saw her doctor 12 times over
anced budget of his own. But the plan
he claims to be the “right way" to bal-
ance the budget would leave a $209 bil-
lion deficit in 2005, according to an
analysis by the Congressional Budget
Office
And lest anyone think that the CBO
is biased against the White House,
President Clinton himself has previ-
ously acknowledged that the CBO “is
closer to (being) right than previous
presidents.”
It seems clear that the president
really is not serious about balancing
the budget in five, seven or even 10
years. He’s just looking for a way to
politically outflank the Republicans.
That’s why he keeps reversing field on
the budget.
Indeed, just this past week, the pres-
ident said that he now thought it pos
sible to balance the budget in seven
years. But back in May, when he was
still trying to figure out what his best
line of political attack ought to be, he
dismissed the GOP’s seven-year
timetable as “just a figure picked out
of a hat.”
The president has warned that the
GOP’s Medicare spending slowdown
will have “draconian consequences"
and “dismantle Medicare as we know
it.” But this is the same president who
said two years ago that, “Today, Med-
icaid and Medicare are going up at
three times the rate of inflation. We
propose to let it go up at two times the
rate of inflation (which is exactly what
the GOP budget calls for).
The American people are to be for-
given if they have a hard time figur-
ing out where the president stands on
the balanced budget.
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According to the HLC, her out-of-
pocket expenses for the year would
come to $2,890 under the current Medi-
care system or $2,675 if Sarah pur-
chased the most popular brand of
“Medigap” insurance, costing $1,225,
which covered prescription drugs and
eliminated co-payments for seeing
doctors.
Vladek asserted — and Bailey
agreed — that the bill for “Sarah” ac-
tually would come down to $1,775 a
year if she bought more comprehen-
sive Medigap insurance. Still, the HLC
said, joining an HMO would cut her
costs to $810 a year. Choosing a sepa-
rate “coordinated care” option — a pre-
ferred provider network or “point of
service plan" — would cost her $1,110.
Bailey claims that the federal gov-
ernment currently discourages seniors
from joining HMOs and offers no “co-
ordinated care” option so that only 9 per-
cent are enrolled in Medicare HMOs,
compared with 65 percent of the gen-
eral public that’s covered by managed
care Vladek says it’s “a fiat out lie" that
the government discourages HMOs,
though he acknowledges that Medicare
lacks a coordinated care option
The HLC argues that choosing an-
other GOP option medical savings
accounts would produce much
higher costs for Sarah’ than current
Medicare, a total of $2,950, assuming
that her hospital stay outran the $3,000
deductible policy envisioned in MSA
plans.
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