Cooper blasts Clinton reform thinking. (Representative Jim Cooper, D-Tennessee, President Bill Clinton)

National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition, May, 1993 by Fisher, Mary Jane

Representative Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee) is urging large companies to oppose Bill Clinton's proposed managed competition health care reform. Cooper fears that single-payer legislation support is gaining. In response, Cooper is writing another bill as an alternative to Clinton's proposal. One key concern for Cooper and others is the underlying budget of Clinton's plan, and add-on measures that Clinton wants to attach.

WASHINGTON--Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., chief sponsor of the Conservative Democratic Forum's managed competition bill, issued a call to arms to large employers to oppose the administration's version of managed competition health care reform.

Supporters of single-payer legislation "have the momentum today in Washington," Rep. Cooper told the...

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