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Instead, as Congress straggles back to Washington this week, Senate minority leader Bob Dole and other Republicans are backing away from the "simple insurance reforms" they have touted for months. Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour, who commissioned the "Do it now" ads, told reporters last week that it would be better for Congress to do nothing on health this year, rather than attempt a last-minute compromise. The main reason for this retreat -- as some cynical lawmakers have known all along -- is that there is no simple way to make health insurance secure, affordable and portable. One reason...
...losses of that size would give the opposition make-or- break power in the next one, where battles on welfare reform and the global trade pact await, plus the uncertain second act of health care. The impact of the more powerful G.O.P. presence, declares Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, will be to "cut Clinton's term in half...
Meanwhile, Republicans are happily doing just the opposite by playing up the Washington angle and national themes. "Democrats are running from Clinton like scalded dogs," chuckles G.O.P. chairman Barbour. So the Republicans' constant theme for November, he promises, will be that Democrat incumbents have consistently "voted for Clinton's bad ideas...
...networks have got entangled in a separate dispute. NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN have refused to air two half-hour G.O.P. advertisements against the Clinton plan, both paid for by billionaire Ross Perot. Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour finds this unfair, since last month NBC aired a two- hour, prime-time special on health care funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit group with close ties to the Clinton reform effort...
Republican Party officials confirmed that Ross Perot offered them $1 million to promote their own ideas on health care on national TV. Apparently Perot and Republican national chairman Haley Barbour arebrewing up an hour-long program that slams President Clinton'shealth-reform plan and touts low-budget G.O.P. alternatives. The chart-flipping Texan reportedly opened his wallet after he saw what he thought was an unfair two-hour NBC television special on health care.parpar