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HILLARY ON HILL: WHERE IS SHE ON ISSUES? MRS. CLINTON'S VIEWS HAVE BIZ WARY OR JUST PLAIN PUZZLED AS SHE MULLS SENATE.

Crain's New York Business, May, 1999 by Lipowicz, Alice

The Clinton administration wants to slash Medicare again, costing New York hospitals and doctors $400 million over five years. But at a health care forum on Long Island last month, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said she opposes any additional reductions in Medicare payments to providers.

"She received a very warm reception," says Ray Sweeney, executive vice president of the Healthcare Association of New York State, a hospital lobbying group in Albany. As she edges toward a campaign for the U.S. Senate from New York, Mrs. Clinton has received a torrent of publicity focusing on whether or not she will run for the seat now held by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Little attention has been paid to her political views and whether they are in sync with the...

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