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When Davis signed a head-turning bipartisan health-care-reform package into law last week--one that, among other things, expands coverage to include breast cancer and mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, creates a panel to review denial of coverage and gives patients the right to sue HMOs that don't make "the health of the patient the bottom line"--he established what could become a national standard by which to judge reform in this area...
...American people deserve more than partisan posturing and legislative gamesmanship on an issue this vital," he said in a speech practically interchangeable with various proclamations on everything from the budget to campaign finance reform. "A bipartisan majority is poised to pass this bill, but now they are being blocked by legislative tactics." For Republican leaders, who insist it?s the Democrats, not them, who?ve tied cement blocks to the bill, the goal is to position HMO reform as close as possible to the business interests that support them most fervently. That means limiting lawsuits and capping damage awards. Democrats...
Indeed, her bipartisan tone leads one former Bush official to note that Rice could have ended up working for a Democratic administration. But Rice would rather see her beloved Stanford football team lose than work for a Democrat. By both upbringing and philosophy, she is a committed Republican realist in the tradition of Kissinger, Scowcroft and Colin Powell. Rice's father, a university administrator, joined the G.O.P. in 1952, at a time when Dixiecrats still ruled the South. In 1960 the six-year-old Rice went into a voting booth and instructed her mother to "pull the elephant." Her mother...
...seems preposterous that these common-sense measures have not yet been implemented, especially with the bipartisan lip service paid them in political sound bites. However, apparently the American public has not been angry enough and persistent enough until now to ensure their passage...
...initiative drowned by the protests from the Pentagon and Congress, resulting in the wishy-washy "don't ask, don't tell." It?s also unclear whether President Gore or President Bradley would have the clout to get homosexual-rights laws passed. "Both men would have to prove themselves as bipartisan leaders who are able to change people's minds," he says. "Neither Gore nor Bradley commands a great deal of personal loyalty in the Congress. Both of them were loners when they were senators." Meanwhile, says Pooley, "it will be interesting to see what else each candidate puts...