Word: reforms
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Health Care Reform...
...state health care system worse off than the one that exists today. We support the pretense of the proposal, especially that the law would require health insurance carriers to provide certain rights to their patients and health care professionals. Health care in Massachusetts is in desperate need of reform; too many people are without any type of health insurance and the prices for medical treatment have spiraled out of control. We acknowledge this bold proposal as an attempt to take action to remedy this grave situation. At the same time, independent studies performed by Brandeis University and the Harvard School...
IMPACT: More children would be insured through the CHIP program, but only if states improve their record of implementing the plan. The prescription benefit would reach all seniors, but nothing is done to reform Medicare and trim its long-term costs, which could eventually bankrupt the program...
...then there is Bush himself: he promises that what you see is what you get, but then look at what you get: in Texas he tried for huge, sweeping tax reform, but when only half of it passed, he said he was fine with that. So which part of his current tax plan is he willing to compromise over, the part his party donors expect or the part that the $22,000 mom is counting on? Who's winking at whom? Whose fingers are crossed...
Sadly, no. They've dithered and ducked, coasted and claimed. They squandered their opportunities to create a coherent American agenda in the world. They failed to make us safer from nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Domestically their attitude came down to this: Reform the entitlements? We'd rather go to a fund raiser. Bring new life to dead schools? Rather go to Hollywood. Our children are poisoned by a sour, searing culture? Let them eat something else. Let them eat cake. Clinton and Gore have been unserious in their stewardship. What most characterized their two terms was summed...