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The hotel is ready to compromise on important elements of President Clinton, in terms of health, federal officials said today.

Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen d’affaires said that the administration was ready for some concessions in the structure of groups through the purchase of most Americans would have received medical care under the proposal by Mr. President.

The administration, he said, an increasing number of companies that could serve as their own health insurance without the immense centre known as regional groups of health alliances.

The question is not merely technical. Officials of the author, the plan, headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, said purchasing groups would not be effective unless most Americans have participated in them. But gaining the support of business, or at least the temperature of the opposition, could be decisive for the plan’s Passage. Business Leaders happy

Mr. Bentsen remarks at a conference co-sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers, fortunately, businessmen, many of whom claim they can control, health costs better than alliances by President Bill Clinton .

The secretariat of versöhnlichen comments have only 12 hours after Mr. Clinton has a firm position on another aspect of his proposal in his State of the Union message that said he would veto any health care legislation which do not guarantee the compulsory insurance for all Americans.

Under the Clinton plan, the employer would have had to buy health insurance for their employees, including at least 80 percent of premiums. Very large companies can on their own insurance, but those of 5000 or fewer workers are required to obtain such coverage alliances.

“I know that this is an important issue for you,” said Bentsen entrepreneurs today. “You think the 5000 employees threshold for participation in regional alliances is too high. I understand you want it reduced to 500. We hear you. We are ready to discuss it and other details of our plan. ”

But he said: “We can not accept too low a threshold that everyone selects, and only the smallest businesses and individuals in alliances.”

In addition, he said: “I used the execution of an insurance company. I know how these things work. Premium So, do you think of the costs, it is important that alliances so great, so that the risk can be distributed. Otherwise, he said, the economic alliances did not have enough power to negotiate discounts of doctors and hospitals. Flexibility in the roadmap

In talks today with members of Congress, administration officials said they were also willing to change their timetable for achieving universal coverage. Thomas S. Foley, the spokesman of the house, said after a meeting with the president, “It is possible, you have a certain type in a phase”. And White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, said that the hotel was ready to discuss this issue with legislators.

Many business people said they prefer the idea of a bill by Representatives Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John B. Breaux of Louisiana, both Democrats, want more modest changes in the health system. Your bill from the employer, an insurance for workers, but did not need.

“The Clinton deserve a clear and convincing victory, but not with their plan, as now,” said Cooper also spoke at the conference. “Our plan can achieve the coverage on the same schedule until 1998, without a mandate from the employer. Coercion government should be a last resort, not a first resort “.

Mrs. Clinton said the bill is defective Cooper, in part, because it contains no guarantee for a blanket.

Supporters of abortion rights Cooper attacked the bill today, they say not guarantee coverage of abortion. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and 39 other groups concerned with women’s rights letter to members of Congress at the invitation to refuse or withdraw support from the Cooper bill, described as “a vehicle to discrimination against women.