Word: fortney
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Later that day, the Democrats got their revenge. Prodded by subcommittee chairman Fortney (Pete) Stark of California, they pushed through a plan that expands Medicare to achieve universal coverage while cutting back substantially on the White House's proposed benefits to hold down costs. Gone are such high-price items as long-term care and limits on out-of-pocket expenses for catastrophic illness. Under this plan, Medicare patients would foot 20% of their home-health-service bills, which is double what Clinton envisioned. The resulting savings of $6 billion, coupled with a cigarette-tax hike of $1.25 a pack...
Until last Thursday. On that day, Mrs. Clinton visited Capitol Hill to persuade key Congressmen that she welcomed their suggestions. But Fortney Stark, the irascible California Democrat who chairs the House health subcommittee, complained that he could not seriously study the plan under Mrs. Clinton's ground rules: that legislators could see it only in guarded "reading rooms" in the Capitol, where they would be forbidden to make copies or take notes. By early evening, majority leader Dick Gephardt ordered that they be given copies of the plan. And by 6 p.m., copies of those copies began making their...