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From: Steven L Clift <clif0005@GOLD.TC.UMN.EDU>
Subject: Health Care Plan Available
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RETRIEVING THE HEALTH CARE SECURITY PLAN SUMMARY
To receive instructions for retrieving the Health Care Security Plan
Summary, send mail to:
health@ace.esusda.gov.
Do not place any text in the body of the message.
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WHAT IS AVAILABLE -- AND HOW?
The Health Care Security Plan Summary is now available electronically
and in print and will soon be available on CD-ROM. Please note that
document may not be available at every site immediately. Some sites
may require up to 24 hours to make the report available. If you are
unsuccessful with one site, don't hesitate to try another.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Retrieving an electronic version -- at no charge
A. Retrieval via electronic bulletin board
B. Retrieval via electronic mail
C. Retrieval via gopher or telnet
D. Retrieval via anonymous file transfer protocol (ftp)
E. Retrieval via state-of-the-art access methods
II. Retrieving electronic versions -- for a fee.
- CDROM
- Commercial Services
III. Retrieving a paper copy -- for a fee.
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I. RETRIEVING AN ELECTRONIC VERSION -- NO CHARGE
A - VIA ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS
1) Bulletin Board at Fedworld (National Technical Info. Service)
Set software parameters for: N-8-1
Dial: (9600 baud) 703-321-8020
B - VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
The Health Care Security Plan Summary is divided into sections. This
allows you to select sections of interest.
1) almanac@ace.esusda.gov (Extension Service, USDA)
To retrieve all or part of the Health Care Security Plan Summary via
email, send one or more of the lower-case commands listed below on
the right to: almanac@ace.esusda.gov
TO RETRIEVE: TYPE:
The Need for Reform: send hsa need4
The Health Security Plan Executive Summary: send hsa 10pgr
The Preliminary Health Plan Summary: send hsa summary
This document: send hsa help
C - VIA GOPHER OR TELNET
1) gopher esusda.gov (Extension Service, USDA)
To get to this gopher, type:
gopher esusda.gov
From the Extension Service, USDA Main Menu, choose:
12. White House and Congress (incl. Health Care, NAFTA, NII, NPR)/
2. Health Care Reform
"Health Security Plan"
2) gopher sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)
To get to this gopher, type:
gopher sunsite.unc.edu
From the Univ. North Carolina Main Menu, choose:
16. Health Care Security Plan Summary /
3) telnet sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)
Type: telnet sunsite.unc.edu
Login as: gopher
Choose menu option 16 "Health Care Security Plan Summary"
4) telnet fedworld.gov (National Technical Info. Service)
Type: telnet fedworld.gov
(IP address 192.239.92.201)
Files are located in:
w-house library
The Health Care Security Plan Summary documents are named as
follows in the FedWorld System:
HCR.ZIP The full Health Care Security Plan Summary, all
sections.
HCR1 The Need for Reform
HCR2 The Health Care Security Plan Summary Executive
Summary
HCR3 Preliminary Health Plan Summary
For further info on FedWorld, call: 703-487-4648.
5) telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Type: telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov
Login as: trial (not "guest"!)
Choose menu option "Presidential"
This Economic Bulletin Board is available via telnet,
temporarily at no charge.
For information, call:
202-482-1986
D - VIA ANONYMOUS-FTP
1) ftp sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)
The Health Care Security Plan Summary is available by anonymous ftp at
the University of North Carolina. Open that site as follows:
TYPE:
To open the ftp site: ftp sunsite.unc.edu
To login: anonymous
To send a password: <your email address>
To reach the proper directory:
cd pub/academic/political-science/Health Care Security Plan Summary
E - STATE-OF-THE-ART ACCESS (University of North Carolina)
1) WORLD-WIDE-WEB: (University of North Carolina)
Yes! The report is available in hypertext at North Carolina!!
Access this collection of multimedia, hypertext files using
clients such as Mosaic.
Begin at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/unchome.html
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II. RETRIEVING AN ELECTRONIC VERSION -- FOR A FEE
The Health Care Security Plan Summary may also be retrieved for a fee
from several commercial services. These services are listed here for
informational purposes only, and not to recommend or promote any
of the services.
A - CD-ROM
Will be available for archive and research purposes on the next
issue of the National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank
(NESE-DB) CD-ROM produced by the Dept. of Commerce.
The Health Care Security Plan Summary should be available in
the November 1993 issue. There is a charge for this CD-ROM
<Also available for free public access in 860 federal
depository libraries located throughout the U.S.>
To order, contact:
Office of Business Analysis
Room H4884
Department of Commerce
Washington, DC 20230
Phone: 202-482-1986
Fax: 202-482-2164
B - COMMERCIAL SERVICES
-- America Online
For compressed versions of the Health Care Security Plan Summary, go
to keyword: WHITE HOUSE
or
Locate: "White House Forum" in News & Finance Dept.
Files are available for downloading in the White House
Forum's download library.
-- CompuServe:
Type: GO WHITEHOUSE
-- Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)
EBB subscribers may obtain the complete Health Care Reform
Report for a fee. Nonsubscribers may subscribe for a fee and
receive full access to the report for no additional charge and
obtain access to over 2,000 files covering current economic and
business news issues by the U.S. Government.
Call 202-482-1986 for more information.
-- GEnie:
To access the White House Roundtable, which contains the
official electronic press releases and announcements from
the White House, including the Health Care Security Plan Summary,
type:
WHITEHOUSE
To download the Health Care Security Plan Summary, from
anywhere on GEnie, type:
MOVE 1600;3
-- MCI:
Type: VIEW WHITEHOUSE ECONOMIC
On MCI Mail type VIEW WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC at the Command
prompt for a scan of the postings. At the View Command
prompt type READ followed by a space and the number of the
appropriate posting.
-- Peacenet or Econet:
See pol.govinfo.usa
-- The WELL:
To access the Health Care Security Plan Summary, type:
whitehouse
You are then presented with a menu for White House Information:
If you choose the Health Care Security Plan Summary you will be
prompted with another menu that contains the various section of
the Health Care Reform Report:
As indicated on the lower portion of the menu, you can read an
item (by typing a number), download a file, e-mail a file, etc.
In the top level menu, there are two items which take them
through the process of sending e-mail to the whitehouse (they
are presented with instructions to include a postal return
address, etc )
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III. RETRIEVING A PAPER COPY -- FOR A FEE
Printed versions are available at nominal charge.
A - FROM NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE (NTIS)
Call: 703-487-4650
For a high-quality, reproduction print.
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Compiled by: Americans Communicating Electronically (ACE)
Date: September 22,1993
For more information about ACE send E-mail to:
info@ace.esusda.gov
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