Coalition To Preserve Health Benefits

Representatives of labor, large corporations and the insurance industry have formed the first major coalition to publicly oppose the Clinton Administration on health care reform. The group, calling itself the Coalition to Preserve Health Benefits, is planning an orchestrated campaign against an expected part of the emerging Administration reform plan: taxation of health care benefits. "This is a White House that can't get it right on choosing an attorney general.

Representatives of labor, large corporations and the insurance industry have formed the first major coalition to publicly oppose the Clinton Administration on health care reform. The group, calling itself the Coalition to Preserve Health Benefits, is planning an orchestrated campaign against an expected part of the emerging Administration reform plan: taxation of health care benefits. "This is a White House that can't get it right on choosing an attorney general.

President Clinton has decided that all companies, regardless of size, should be required to join the new national health program, according to senior White House officials. The decision is a blow for those large corporations which had hoped to retain the power to structure health benefits for their workers.