Show a104 A2 2 COMMENTARY The Salt Lake Tribune One Pizza to Go But Hold the Health Care By Robert Reno : NEWSDAY People standing in line for heart surgery your old family doctor banned from treating you hospitals discharging people about to croak bed pans unemptied appendectomies limited to One per family a vast and malign new government bureaucracy mass unemployment the carcasses of a million small businesses littering the economic landscape women in Canada and Britain who have to wait five years for a face lift and now — get this — the $20 pizza That's how much Sen Dole Bob says a pizza will cost R-K- if Pizza Hut and its franchisees are required to provide health coverage for all its hourly employees and these are some of the more ludicrous scare stories being promiscuously spread to fight the simple notion that every American ought to have the same health security as the president of Pizza Hut or any member of Congress The latest flap started when a group called the Health Care Reform Project prepared a TV commercial pointing out that Pizza Hut which is headquartered in Dole's Kansas pays for health in By Jove The rts MILWAUKEE — It being Jupi- k ( T- V —040 ( 1 ' I said the higher& "We cannot afford to be overstocked" So they waited and then waited some more and when the booms came it was almost too late to touch the switch and get the production lines rolling oncein-a-sp- couldn't motivate production lines under these circumstances then when? It wasn't even a surprise the comet: that was what itched The scopes had picked up suspicious motion in the outer layers months ago ample time to mine the dyes and weave the surfaces But the highers said: "Wait" And then: "Wait some more" It looks big now they argued but so did the Tumbling Orbines of Roy What a dud that was Eons later the warehouses were still brimfilled and they were selling the stuff below cost on the Shopping Channel "This cannot happen again" "Another Scorcher!" screamed the inklings as the latest fragment hit the gases "Five Solars — No Relief in Sight" At the fireball it was all anyone could vibrate about They tried to grasp the power of the thing the size and scope and splatitude of it all but try as they might they could not get their brains around it "If only we had a nuclear arsenal" some Jo vians thought to themselves "we could compare these explosions to our nuclear arsenal" "What's a nuclear arsenal?" e 011' I 14 e 01 N 0 ' I eplk6 1 I 0 I Any frame ' names more-an- ' - - Rs sEr--A—- -L--- tr nt r Now Imre wayslo buy at Sears: 1"1114 ktiallii IMMO Cla) atoll o M' '171' :7Z - A i - ' -- 4 Aft" P i 1 11 71 i ' ill 1 111111'ill:t PI - e I - (1N31 m:pt1e ir 1:07 )0it' 41 li ' ' itii - -- 4- - - ra- ' - e701-- - - it- The ease with which Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer sailed through the confirmation process affirmed the wisdom of President Clinton's current selection method if you accept the goal of avoiding the Senate Judiciary Committee hornet's nests that met Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas But in striving for v I in Too FLAus of legal logic his legal legacy is full of those felt necessities He gave us the concept of "clear and present danger" as the only grounds for limiting freedom of speech and left us the parable of the man who shouts "fire" in a crowded theater so we would understand He taught us that "the best test of truth is the power of thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market': and that the most imperative principle of the Constitution is freedom of thought "even for the thought that we hate" Point of Law A ? -- ' Ido - nominees there is a danger that the president will deprive the Supreme Court of the inestimable value of the brilliant eccentric mind After having a good deal of difficulty early in his presidency in finding court nominees who could pass rigorous examination into such matters as whether she withheld Social Security taxes from her babysitter's pay the president has taken to nominees by checking with the Senate first Judge Breyer the president noted was supported not only by his home state senator Democrat Edward Kennedy but also by the senior Republican of the Senate Judiciary Committee Orrin Hatch of Utah He couldn't miss And certainly Judge Breyer is qualified with the highest sort of academic legal and judicial resume He qualifies as brilliant and middle also as Edward McDonough )04' But could Oliver Wendell and plain vanilla That's OK except that some of the justices who made the greatest contributions to the court and to the law shared only the first attribute with the Breyers of the bar William O Douglas for example Or the greatest of them all Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr it is reHolmes once said " quired of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged never to have lived" This philosophy is reflected in the legacy he left us after serving on the United States Supreme Court into his ninth decade of life "The life of the law" Holmes wrote "has not been logic: it has been experience The felt necessities of the time" Although Holmes was a master "pre-qualifyin- Holmes have been nominated for the court under present standards? 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And the less they could figure out just how they'd pulled it off — how someone had made those fragments come tearing out of their orbits to gascrash and spacedazzle — the more convinced they were that that's exactly what had happened There was simply no reasoning with them "A cover-uZeeny I can feel it in my spleeb!" It being Jupiter nobody paid them any mind ks lezat lit pizzas Rick Horowitz : Iet) 11 n : sys- tem bought enough congressmen to ram it into law and unloaded burden the whole health-car- e onto the government a year ago The doctors would have swallowed hard and accepted it because they know it is the only plan that preserves patient choice and physician autonomy Even Dole could have voted for it and claimed he'd saved us from $20 16") Shirts were late getting in from the factory Likewise the souvenir commugs and the limited-editiomemorative plates The factory was never that efficient to begin with but ever since the famous Methane Plume of 017 output had slowed to an absolute creep Still the orders had gone in: TShirts mugs plates — and plenty of them A cometary event of this magnitude after all was a occurrence If you ' Canadian-styl- r single-paye- e Should Sell Like Gershwints T-Shi- ter the "I Survived the Comet" dates Anyway it's really not a catfight worth taking sides in except as a case study in how corporate managers should not respond to a commercial advancing an idea as fundamentally decent as that pizza waitresses and dough throwers of America deserve what its congressmen and chief executives get in abundance — health security And if I were the president of General Motors or thousands of other companies who do provide full health coverage I'd be irritated as hell that the medical costs that Pizza Hut workers can't afford are being shifted to my own company's books If the business lobbies had had any sense from the start they'd have told the private health insurance companies to go to hell come out early for a surance for its lower paid employees in Germany and Japan but not in the United States Pizza Hut responded that a pizza it sells for $11 in the United States goes for $19 in Germany and $25 in Japan You get the drift You'll never be able to afford another pizza if employer mandates are approved by Congress Pizza Hut also called the commercials libelous and pressured Washington television stations not to carry them The Health Care Reform Project responded that based on Pizza Huts labor costs which are about 30 percent of its sales and after generous government subsidies for insuring its lower paid workers the price of a pizza might go up 40 cents under the Clinton plan And besides whatever possessed Pizza Hut to do business in those foreign countries if employer mandates there are so crushing a burden so ruinous of profits? How did Japan and Germany get to be the world's second and third ranking industrial powers with health-car- e systems so destructive of private employment? The reason things cost more in dollar terms in Germany and Japan has to do with exchange rates not health care or employer man Sunday July 24 1994 0 a - N N m Ogden a 84405 A 9 - i |