[THE FOLLOWING IS A PERIODIC BRIEFING SENT TO ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF THE CLINTON HEALTH-REFORM PACKAGE. IT PROVIDES AN INSIDE GLIMPSE OF THE WHITE HOUSE'S LOBBYING ACTIVITIES FOR ITS REFORM PACKAGE. -- Steve Freedkin, LIST.HEALTHPLAN Administrator] The White House Health Care Reform Today September 20, 1993 * Today, President Clinton and the First Lady will join more than 100 doctors to talk about the Health Security Act. Joining them and speaking will be the former Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop. * This week, as we head towards the President's speech on Wednesday night, we'll be giving you our suggestions on how to talk about health care. The basics of how what we say centers around these six principles: Security, Savings, Simplicity ... Quality, Responsibility and Choice. * Guaranteeing comprehensive benefits that can never be taken away. Controlling health care costs for consumers, business and our nation. Improving the quality of American health care. Increasing choices for consumers. Reducing paperwork and simplifying the system. Making everyone responsible for health care. * In America, rights and responsibilities go hand-in-hand. We will ask everybody to pay something, even if your contribution is small. Everyone must assume responsibility. No one should get a free ride. Most important, we're going to offer new opportunities and new incentives for people to stay healthy -- and to treat small problems before they become big ones. Our goal should be to keep people healthy, not treat them after they become sick. * While others are not drawing any lines in the sand on the details of the plan, the NFIB sure did. NFIB head Jack Faris made that clear in Friday's New York Times. He said: "We checked the Constitution, and we don't see where it gives you the right to universal health insurance." Basically, the NFIB is saying to everyone who currently does not have health care or is at risk of losing their health care to drop dead. But then again, the NFIB has been predicting the end of the world as they know it since at least 1962.