101.   The House plan provides a standard benefits package that is similar to the benefits offered by Medicare.

102.   The guarantee is largely symbolic, however, because the Senate legislation leaves it up to the states to decide how generous a benefit package to offer these groups.

103.   The government, particularly the federal government, has no business dictating the terms of employee benefit packages.

104.   The lack of emphasis on retirement saving is not uncommon among employees of GM, known in Michigan as Generous Mother because of its benefit packages.

105.   The leading proposal, offered by Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., would provide drug coverage as a standard part of the Medicare benefit package.

106.   The National Conference of Catholic Bishops plunged into the health care debate Wednesday, vowing to fight the inclusion of abortion in a basic benefits package.

107.   The major flaw with the bill is that it sets an excessively expensive benefit package that will drive up premiums and discourage many New Yorkers from buying coverage.

108.   The problem here, Feldstein says, is that Medicaid coverage is much more generous than the standard benefits package proposed for other recipients of subsidized coverage.

109.   The reasons that so few gay workers take advantage of the benefits package vary, Sherman said.

110.   The plan calls for the development of a standard insurance benefit package.