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The Clinton administration has threatened to veto a bill today have health insurance, when the Republicans that, in launching a vast program of medical savings accounts and representatives Dick Armey, the Republican leader Bank home, procrastination, the president of doing so.

Others in each party, has always hoped a compromise could be worked out, but neither the administration nor Congressional aid with the subject while progress has been made on the weekend. Senator Bob Dole, the majority leader and likely Republican presidential candidate, has often said he would like to see a bill passed before the Senate from Tuesday.

The underlying share for health insurance protection of the portable exchange workplace has almost universal support on Capitol Hill. With the kind support of Senators Nancy Landon Caisse d’tree, Republican of Kansas, and Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, it passes the Senate 100 to 0.

But House Republicans, supported by Mr. Dole, want to record a programme of Tax-free savings accounts to pay basic costs of health care for individuals, who would also buy insurance policies with high deductible is intended to cover catastrophic illnesses.

Republicans are calling such a plan would slow the rise of inflation of medical patients make decisions. But Democrats argue, as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin said today, most healthy and most of the poor are likely to go to the “Raising the insurance costs for everyone else.

With Mr. Clinton and the Congress of the city, took place today skirmishing television interview. Mr. Rubin, ABC News “This Week,” said the president would veto the bill when it reached with the medical savings accounts attached. Mr. Clinton had described the provision as a “poison pill”, but was not explicit threat to veto the terminal.

Mr. Armey, occupies the second place, Speaker Newt Gingrich, House Republican, appeared in the same issue and said: “I will not pass on savings accounts. The question of what would happen if it causes a veto, he replied, “it is the president have to do with the American people, it has a right of veto when one of the most popular there are things the American people.”

The temperature was slightly cooler on the ABC News program “Meet the Press”, in which E. Leon Panetta, chief of General Staff of the White House, said: “If there is something, what I hope Senator Dole can provide, before the Senate, Kennedy this fund tree. ”

Mr. Panetta said that during accountable “does not” in the tree of cash-Kennedy-law, the administration is ready to accept a demonstration project to see how it worked in practice. “The Republicans on the home page have said, ‘No, no, we want this thing all or nothing,” he said.

Given that the Assembly, the bill would have accounts directly available to almost all private insurance. House Republicans have agreed to put back about two thirds of people without insurance, as a first step, all the others by granting three years.

The house informal negotiating chiefs in all Republican, negotiations have also agreed that the provisions of deposit in their account for damage to the limits in the art of medical errors and costumes for the creation of small insurance companies Group purchases free of state regulation.

Another Republican from home, not even on “Meet the Press”, a softer line that Mr. Armey. John R. Representative Kasich of Ohio, chairman of the Budget Committee, said while he strongly favoured the medical savings accounts, he did not want to see the savings provision Kill Bill made the coverage portable and reduces the capacity of insurance companies to deny coverage to new clients for medical terms.