The policy initiatives that Government could provide through legislative mandates for universal access and equitable financing are the tools that our private sector needs to cast its health care net further and wider.

The plan was intended to provide more equitable financing of schools by shifting the burden from property taxes to sales and other taxes.

"It was the beginning of equitable financing for the schools of New Jersey."

He said he was continuing to negotiate with the government and would resubmit the application in September if more equitable financing could be found.

Cost management and equitable financing are critical to attaining a workable, affordable, and sustainable health care system.

Universal coverage cannot be achieved or sustained without equitable financing.

While New York City schools desperately need more equitable financing, any additional money should of course be spent on strategies that actually help students learn.

We have many fine public schools, with many fine teachers, and I have fought for equitable financing of our public-school system.

An issue is whether the law requires equitable financing statewide or, as the Levittown decision found, "maintenance and support of a system of free common schools in which all children of the state may be educated."

The Clinton plan, he said, is the only other proposal that meets the criteria of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.: universal coverage, comprehensive benefits, cost controls and equitable financing.