Clinton's Plan: DOA?

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The withering fire that riddled the Clinton plan this week will not end soon. The Democratically controlled Congressional Budget Office is expected to release its own report on the Administration proposal, and aides to Senate Democrats predict the findings will be, as one put it, "unfavorable." If the CBO decides the new insurance premiums are actually a tax in disguise, critics will find it even easier to condemn the whole approach as a tax-and-spend extravaganza that would add 25% to the federal budget by 1998. "Bad as this week was," said one Democratic Senate aide, "next week will make this week look easy."