11.  As a result, the Republican plan does not contain financial incentives for joining HMOs or penalties for not joining.

12.  As a traditionally Democratic state, Massachusetts might be expected to be more hostile to the Republican plan than the country as a whole.

13.  As if that were not enough, simple arithmetic shows that middle-class families would almost certainly pay higher taxes under the Republican plans than they do now.

14.  As their opening gambit, Clinton and his aides are challenging the Republican plan to wipe out the deficit in seven years.

15.  At the time, many liberals cheered because the vow seemed a deft way to fight off a Republican plan to pass a huge tax cut for rich families.

16.  Bloodied by the ballot-box defeat last week, Democrats avoided public criticism of the Republican plans, eager to avoid any hint that they opposed welfare changes.

17.  Beyond the grievance procedures the Republican plan provides certain protections available to different groups of people depending on the source of their health care.

18.  Both pro-regulation consumer groups and anti-regulation managed care industry representatives reacted negatively to the Republican plan.

19.  A Republican plan to provide prescription drug benefits to the elderly through private insurers is drawing a skeptical reaction from many health policy experts.

20.  A Republican plan focuses on corporate and individual tax cuts.