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- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: Basketball Court Babel
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- NATION
- Basketball Court Babel
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Sixty-four lucky contestants vie for the health-care task force's
- ear
- </p>
- <p> Thirteen hours. Sixty-four invitees. Three-minute time
- limits. The gathering at a college basketball court in the
- capital was billed as the first formal meeting of the President's
- normally secretive health-care task force. A cynic might have
- dubbed it a grudging charade by an Administration that likes its
- participatory democracy in tiny slices. But none of the
- participants was cynic enough to turn down the access. Each
- spoke for three minutes and joined one of 12 panel chats with
- task-force members. (Hillary Rodham Clinton, their chief, was
- attending her father, who had suffered a stroke.)
- </p>
- <p> When the babel died down, some observers thought the task
- force seemed quite taken with price controls. Hillary's deputy,
- Ira Magaziner, agreed. Controls might be problematic, he said,
- but huge yearly cost gains were "not a pleasant reality
- either." Perhaps mulling such choices, the Administration later
- hinted that its May 3 deadline for the finished plan might be
- pushed back.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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