THIS IS THE DAILY BRIEFING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO ITS OFFICIALS AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF ITS HEALTH-REFORM PROGRAM. IT PROVIDES AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW THE ADMINISTRATION IS PROMOTING ITS PLAN. THIS ITEM WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME SUBJECT LINE (WITH DIFFERENT DATES) SO YOU CAN EASILY SKIP IT IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO READ IT.] The White House Health Care Reform Today November 15, 1993 * Last week, the American Association of Retired Persons said that President Clinton's Health Security Act was "...the strongest and most realistic blueprint to date for achieving our goals." * In their release, AARP said: "Our members express their strong desire for enactment of meaningful health care reform, without the partisan bickering that has choked much of America's legislative process." * AARP board chair, Judith Brown said: "We urge every American to ask their elected representative to enact a plan that assures every American comprehensive benefits -- including long-term care and prescription drugs -- that can never be taken away. The status quo is the most expensive and most threatening course before us. Those who profit from the status quo are often the ones behind misleading scare campaigns." * First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged the people of Ohio to stand up and speak out for health care reform. During stops in Cleveland and Marietta last Friday, the first lady said: "If you stand for reform we'll get it done in 1994. If you don't fight for it, we can't." * The President's chief health care policy advisor, Ira Magaziner, told a Connecticut audience over the weekend that there were many parallels between the attacks being mounted on the President's plan and the attacks made against President Roosevelt when he proposed Social Security legislation. He said those attacks sound very similar to the ones being heard today...that health care reform will ruin the country and that it was socialism. Today, he said, it is difficult to imagine a time when the elderly were kept in poorhouses.