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I proposed that all employers provide health insurance, as 75 percent of them were already doing, with a discount for small-business owners who otherwise couldn’t afford the insurance. And I would rather have that than a Nobel Prize, and I’ll tell you why. It would happen because that’s what ultra-conservatives wanted to do, and because I was determined to hold them to the laws of arithmetic. the world community, and the economic growth that had accelerated under his leadership and that of his prime minister, Zhu Rongj

th insurance from job to job while prohibiting insurance companies from denying anyone coverage because of a preexisting health problem. We made fifteen stops along the way and slowed down as we passed through small towns so that I could wave to the people who had gathered by the tracks. The speech also gave me a chance to publicly thank Tony Blair for his friendship and our partnership. At the time, Moshe Dayan had said that Muslim religious sites would be respected, and thereafter the mount was overseen by Muslims.