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Sunday, June 27, 1999
White House finalizing proposals to overhaul Medicare
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Clinton dropped a plan to charge well-to-do older people higher Medicare premiums, and White House and Cabinet officials are readying a public relations blitz on his still-secret Medicare overhaul.
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and top White House economic adviser Gene Sperling have been dispatched to TV's Sunday morning talk shows in an effort to build anticipation for Clinton's Medicare proposal.
Details of how the president will seek to fulfill promises to shore up Medicare in time for the baby boom generation's retirement in the next couple of decades, while adding a costly prescription drug benefit, are being accorded a Rose Garden debut Tuesday.
Tough decisions on how to pay for billions of dollars worth of changes to the retiree health care program were completed Friday, a White House official said. But only a handful of the president's closest advisers knew the details, this official said Saturday, and they were ordered to let Clinton make the announcement himself.
Facing the final 18 months of his presidency, Clinton has said he hopes to achieve major Medicare and Social Security reform as part of his historical legacy.
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