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...provide coverage for their workers or to pay into a government fund of the otherwise uninsure, or a Canadian style national health insurance system in which the government pays nearly all health costs. Democratic presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Paul Tongs favor the first approach. Jerry Brown and Bob Kerrey supports the second. (Tom Harkin is still on the fence...
...Democrats appear ambivalent in their attitudes toward the world's other economic superpower. Since three of the five Democrats have been state Governors (Clinton, Kerrey of Nebraska and Jerry Brown of California), they tend to welcome Japanese investment in America (jobs) even as they deplore Japanese trading practices (lost jobs). No Democratic candidate would qualify as a Japan expert, but all, aside from Tsongas, have visited the country. In fact Harkin lived in Japan for 18 months as a naval aviator during the 1960s, and Brown made pilgrimages both as Governor and, more recently, as an acolyte...
...Kerrey the Weathervane: in his TV ads and rhetoric he often sounds like a Harkin echo. But then in interviews he veers the other way, saying, "I don't think we ought to be protectionist. I think we need to lead in a free-trade fashion." His glib approach rests on the faith that Japan will respond to firm U.S. pressure and -- presto -- the trade deficit will vanish. "I don't mean to dictate to Japan what they do internally," he insists, before adding, somewhat contradictorily, that they "have to give us access to their marketplace...
...attributes only 25% of the trade problem to Japan's structural barriers to U.S. imports. He stresses the primacy of U.S. ties with Japan, saying, "It's like any other important relationship in life. It can't be dealt with intermittently." But Clinton can be almost as evasive as Kerrey when it comes to the specifics of how to pry open Japanese markets. As he puts it, "We'll play by their rules if they won't play by ours and take appropriate action...
...opening, but other candidates were really disadvantaged by this trash too. It just sucked up all the oxygen in the room." Co-anchor Cathy Burnham of the state's leading television outlet, WMUR, wryly acknowledged that fact last week as she introduced a story on Senator Bob Kerrey's health-care ideas. "And now," she said, minutes into the newscast's political coverage, "let's try to get to the issues...