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...politicians have figured out anything about medicine, it's that a bedside manner makes a difference. Hillary Clinton learned this painfully, when the postmortems on her health-care plan suggested that her high-handed style hastened its demise. Newt Gingrich is not about to make the same mistake. He has known for months that his whole grand scheme to balance the budget depends on reinventing Medicare, one of the biggest, fattest, most popular and most expensive pieces of the Federal Government. So back in the spring Gingrich began plotting his moves, all the while bearing in mind that when...
...program will go bankrupt in seven years; the Democrats are too lily-livered to do anything about it; and so it is up to the Republicans to "save Medicare" by clamping down on its growth rate and producing $270 billion in savings over the next seven years. When Gingrich talks about the fight ahead, he seems almost giddy. "I have every confidence that if we get up every morning focusing on Medicare and we stay on top of this issue, we'll do fine," he says. "My only fear is that we will fail to do that...
...government mess with your Medicare." Again and again, the President poked at the soft spots in the G.O.P. numbers, charging that the $270 billion taken out of Medicare would be used to pay for the G.O.P.'s $245 billion in tax cuts "for people who don't need it." Gingrich replied that Clinton was trying to scare senior citizens in order to get re-elected, "a very despicable strategy...
This piece of the game plan is the clearest evidence that Gingrich learned from the last war. As co-chairman of the House G.O.P. health-care task force, he had a ringside seat for the White House debacle on that issue in 1994. Hillary Clinton's task force froze out powerful groups while the plan was being formulated, then tried to arouse public support by portraying insurance and drug companies as the villains of American health care...
Funny howold promisescome back to haunt politicians. Back on Jan. 27, House Speaker Newt Gingrich sent theNational Rifle Associationa written pledge that "no gun control legislation" would pass the House as long as he holds the job. Now, to the delight of President Clinton, who has made gun control a major campaign issue, the NRA has sent the missive out to its members as a fundraiser. Gingrich is on the record as a strict gun-control opponent, butTIME's Laurence Barrettsays such private agreements make for bad public relations. "It certainly helps the Democrats make their case that...