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...years since he was elected, Davis has triangulated obsessively, shunning confrontation and partisan dogfighting in his search for the middle ground on such issues as education, public safety and HMO reform. Because he has a reputed campaign chest of some $21 million, there is already talk of a presidential bid in 2004. He likes to be compared with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pioneer of the moderate Third Way school of politics. "Make progress where there is already common ground--that is what I believe in," Davis told TIME in an interview last week in Sacramento. But with utilities going...
Shama says that, stressed by HMO's, malpractice suits and regulations, physicians have forgotten the joys of medicine. He wants doctors to remember what their job's are all about: compassion and humanity...
...Oprah language of caring (against Gore's tin ear for it) that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood bill, a bipartisan effort to solve the HMO problem, he might as well have pulled a shiny chrome instrument out of his back pocket and performed an invasive procedure on one of the Undecideds. In the face of details, Bush seeks refuge in his own good intentions, expressed in a warm bedside manner. "You can quote...
Were it not for the pervasive influence of special-interest money in the current political system, patients would be protected from HMO abuses, seniors would have access to affordable prescription drugs, guns would be kept out of the hands of criminals and America would be a better place in countless other ways--all because special interests would not be able to block legislation they abhorred. It is the huge inflows of campaign cash from the pharmaceutical industry that have kept a prescription-drug benefit from being added to Medicare. It is the massive financial clout of the National Rifle Association...
...Oprah language of caring (against Gore's tin ear for it) that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood bill, a bipartisan effort to solve the HMO problem, he might as well have pulled a shiny chrome instrument out of his back pocket and performed an invasive procedure on one of the Undecideds. In the face of details, Bush seeks refuge in his own good intentions, expressed in a warm bedside manner. "You can quote...