He said his proposals would not harm most small businesses because two-thirds of the nation's small businesses already provide health-insurance coverage for employees.
If the problem is how consumers use health-care services, then health-insurance coverages must be structured to require more stringent co-insurance provisions.
One of them is the future of the health-insurance coverage for catastrophic illness.
His proposed solution is a plan for universal health-insurance coverage linked to economic development.
The issue of providing health-insurance coverage is actually stunting the economic recovery on Long Island.
The major drawback in the Administration's proposal is that it relies for financing on traditional employer-based health-insurance coverage.
Since the election, Clinton aides have said they hope to use the savings to cover the cost of guaranteeing health-insurance coverage for all Americans.
In three days, the letter said, she and almost three hundred co-workers would be laid off, and would lose their health-insurance coverage.
Bradley asks Gore why he isn't proposing universal health-insurance coverage.
The proposal would require employers to grant workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid family and medical leave, with continued health-insurance coverage.