Word: hmos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...really about changing tactics; it's about changing enemies. He may not win a popularity contest against George W. Bush, but he might win one against, say, Exxon. You didn't hear him so much as mention Bush last week. Instead he found the enemies he wanted: the greedy HMOs, the polluters, the tobacco and oil companies. If the demons seem real and the stakes are high and issues actually matter, Gore gets to fight on the ground where he is strongest, win back the Democrats who have wandered off, maybe even warrant a second look from the fickle soccer...
Gore's team says it will do all this surgically, with a lot of parts but no sum. His aides think he can take on the pharmaceutical companies over profits and oil companies over price gouging without seeming anti-business. And they point out that the crusade against HMOs appeals to upscale voters as well. "They get stuck on hold when they're trying to get reimbursed too," says a Gore ally...
Insurance companies, for instance, have handed him more cash ($197,000) than any other Senator has received this election. That has not kept Lieberman from favoring a plan that would give patients a new right to sue their insurer-owned HMOs. But in general he has been eager to take the insurers' side. Lieberman is one of a handful of Democrats who support limits on the liability of corporations and, in turn, their insurers for injuries caused by products and services. He has sponsored bills to reduce the number of lawsuits by workplace victims of asbestos and to eliminate legal...
...Every low-income working family in America must have access to basic health insurance--for themselves and for their children," says Bush. He boasts that Texas was first to let patients sue HMOs...
...head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white, with an odd passel here and there of mostly white demonstrators pushing strollers and carrying mostly black poor and homeless children...