[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 8, 1993 * On NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, President Clinton talked about who will pay what under the Health Security Act of 1993. He said: "Now let me say what was wrong with the early figures where they said 40 percent of the people with insurance would pay more. Here's what was wrong with them, why they were too high. The people who have insurance today, We now think that 70 percent will pay the same or less for the same or better benefits. Why did they say 60 before? Because they neglected to calculate this: A lot of people who have insurance don't really have it. That is, they have $5,000 deductibles. So they're paying every year, they just may not be paying in their insurance premium." * "So they went back and calculated based on what we now know about how much out-of-pocket people pay -- you have $2,500, $3,000, $5,000 deductible. That is something they neglected to think about. So now, who will pay more under this who has insurance already? People who have essentially catastrophic policies, who have very limited benefits and young single workers will pay more because if they pay more, it will enable us to have what's called community ratings, so that if a working family, middle-aged working family with a sick child can still get insurance at an affordable cost, and all the young workers who don't have insurance will be brought into the insurance system, and even they will get something for it. That is, what they get for it is knowing their insurance can never be taken away." * "Finally, let me say this. If you look at the experience of the last 12 years, when insurance, when health costs really started to take off, and then you think about what it will be like five years from now, a hundred percent of the American people will pay more five years from now than the rate of inflation if we don't do something."