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...holdouts to pass President Bush's Medicare-reform bill. They succeeded, but now even some allies of the bill are upset at the dealmaking that enabled it to happen. The American Hospital Association (A.H.A.), an important supporter of the bill, is furious about a last-minute agreement Speaker Dennis Hastert struck to get California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's yes vote. Hastert promised a vote next year on a bill Rohrabacher plans to introduce that would require hospitals treating illegal aliens to report them to authorities for deportation. The Medicare legislation reimburses hospitals for the $1.45 billion they spend annually caring...
...such as SARS or AIDS were to go "untreated in any individual, regardless of immigration status, that can affect everybody." The bill could also alienate Hispanic Americans, a group Republicans will be courting for next year's elections. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus last week sent an angry letter to Hastert, demanding that he "rescind" his promise to Rohrabacher...
...midterm elections, has been steadily increasing his backstage role in national politics. Nowhere was his presence more on display than in the Medicare-reform bill Congress passed last week. Beginning a year ago, Gingrich gave PowerPoint briefings to top Republican officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate majority leader Bill Frist on market reforms for Medicare. Late in October, Gingrich worked with AARP to circulate a compromise proposal on Capitol Hill, much like the one eventually passed, for Medicare to compete with private insurance plans in a test program. Gingrich has his own health-care...
...years, having spent his career as a surgeon and then earning millions of dollars from HCA Inc., a hospital chain his father and brother founded. Last April Frist publicly agreed to a tax-cut package that was $200 billion less than what House Republican leaders wanted. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was furious, and Frist spent weeks healing the rift. Republican Senators trying to push the initial energy bill through the Senate last June publicly griped that they couldn't build momentum behind the measure because Frist kept pulling it from the floor to deal with other legislation. Even Senators...
...legacy airline that in some ways is a big version of US Airways, the argument may get political. There are 62,174 jobs on the line, not to mention a lot of potential votes. United has spent the past year lining up political supporters around Washington, including Congressman Dennis Hastert, the House Speaker...