The budget battle. What's at stake for employers, what's likely to emerge.
At B&H press time, Republicans and the White House had finally agreed to sit down for serious talks. Numbers and details of the proposals were highly fluid but core positions remained consistent. What follows is a comparison of the key health-care and health benefits-related measures contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1995-the massive seven-year GOP budget-balancing plan--with those in the Clinton Administration's revised seven-year budget plan released on December 7. President Clinton vetoed the Balanced Budget Act on December 6. All numbers and positions are as of December 20 and are based on the differing "baseline" economic and fiscal assumptions both sides were using as of that date.
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