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...make when Americans have at least 10 years of nerve-racking experiences with managed care. But that doesn't mean the industry doesn't have some important and powerful friends. Says an executive: "We want to create an environment where the inside game is hell." When Republican Ray LaHood signed onto one of the managed-care reform bills, two executives of Caterpillar, his district's largest employer, quickly flew to Washington to register their unhappiness with him. Small-business owners--the operators of hardware stores, real estate agencies and Laundromats who form the bedrock of G.O.P. support at home...
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...aide to former minority leader Robert Michael, who served in the House from 1956 until he retired in 1994, LaHood rode Michael's coattails into office. A moderate like his former boss, he supports a balanced-budget amendment, the line-item veto and abortion limits. But he distinguished himself in his first term as one of few freshman Republicans who opposed parts of the Contract with America...
Even if Republicans win the floor vote in Congress, Democrats will try to make them pay at the polls later by telling voters that the G.O.P. plan went too far. For Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois, a Republican freshman, the question is literally whether it will play in Peoria. Television spots blasting his party's proposals are already running in his district. Calls to his office have been divided, he says, between people who are mad at the ads and people who are mad at the Republicans. "There is an understanding that we are going to do something with Medicare...