Viking_Yearbook_94

1993 Associated Press P resident Clinton's point man on health reform in 1993 was his wife, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. When Mrs. Clinton appeared before Congress to implore its members to work with the administration to overhaul the health care system, she got a movie star's reception. But the talk quickly turned to business. Representative Pete Stark, a California Democrat, said he favored expanding medicare to cover all Americans. He told Mrs. Clinton that his mother fears fhat she would be worse off under Clinton's reform plan, even though it calls for new Medicare coverage for prescription drugs. Mrs. Clinton, who chaired the White House task force on health care reform, conceded that Stark had a point. "1 have a mother, too," she said, "so if we can'f pass fhe mother test, we're in trouble.” The Big Picture 39