Word: gridlocking
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Until now, attempts at reform have run into a gridlock of powerful constituencies: giant corporations, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the highly organized senior-citizens lobby. But popular opinion may break the impasse. In a TIME/CNN poll of 1,000 adults surveyed by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 91% said that "our health-care system needs fundamental change." Most of those polled, 75%, said costs are much higher than they should be, and 83% said they would cut costs by limiting doctors' fees. Two-thirds said health care is a right, and 70% said they would be willing to pay higher taxes...
...GRIDLOCK CHIC...
...these hard times. When uninsured workers live in fear that one illness could wipe out their life savings, it is enraging to hear of the House pharmacy dispensing free prescription drugs, not to mention the private congressional ambulance that protects members from the urban nightmare of emergency-room gridlock. When families who know how to squeeze a dollar until the eagle screams still cannot find the money for a haircut, the House barber takes on a special symbolic weight. When young families cannot get a mortgage on a house, the idea of free loans to lawmakers is bound to rankle...
...modern reader, who will probably be more attentive to Puzo's vivid cynicism and gallows humor than to his gridlock plot. When two nutty M.I.T. students blow up Manhattan's sleazy Times Square area with a miniature A-bomb, it seems as if the author has urban renewal, not tragedy, on his mind...
Even now, House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) told President Bush not to reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...