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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release October 27, 1993

            RETRIEVING THE HEALTH SECURITY ACT and/or
          THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

                27 October 1993 10:30:00 EDT

WHAT IS AVAILABLE -- AND HOW?

The President's "Health Security Act" and "The President's Report to the American People" are 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

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 Security Act and "The President's Report to the American People" is divided into sections. This allows you to select sections of interest.

almanac@ace.esusda.gov (Extension Service, USDA)

To retrieve all or part of the Legislation or Report 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 Health Report send health-book catalog

Health Legislation send health-legis catalog (This is being made more e-mail able, Currently LARGE documents)

The Need for Reform: send hsa need4 The Health Security Plan Executive Summary: send hsa 10pgr The Preliminary Health Plan Summary: send hsa summary President's Address before Joint Session of Congress on "Health Security for All Americans" send hsa speech

This document: send hsa help

C - VIA GOPHER OR TELNET

gopher ace.esusda.gov (ACE)

To get to this gopher, type:

gopher ace.esusda.gov

      5.  Americans Communicating Electronically/
          2.  National Health Security Act of 1993/
              1. The President's Report to the American People..

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:

TITLE: FILENAME:

        The Need for Reform                     need4ref.txt
        Health Security Plan -- Exec. Summary   10pgr.txt
        Preliminary Health Plan Summary         summary.txt
        President's Address before Joint
          Session of Congress...                0922spch.txt

        All four of above files, compressed
        -- in ASCII text                        hplan.zip
        -- in WordPerfect format                hplanwp.zip
        -- in MS Word format                    hplandoc.zip

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"

 Files are named:        HSA01.txt
                                HSA02.txt
                                HSA03.txt
                                HSA04.txt

This Economic Bulletin Board is available via telnet, temporarily at no charge.

For information, call:

202-482-1986

D - VIA ANONYMOUS-FTP

ftp sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)

The Health Security 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)

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 Security Act 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 Security Act should be available in the November 1993 issue. There is a charge for this CD-ROM

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 Security Act, 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 Security Act 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 Security Act, type:
WHITEHOUSE

To download the Health Security Act, 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 Security Act, 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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To receive the most recent instructions for retrieving the Health Security Act, and/or the The President's Report to the American People, send an electronic mail message to:

health@ace.esusda.gov.

You do not need to place any text in the body of the message.

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