Word: overhauled
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...major battle line of the 1996 campaign was drawn on Thursday when, by a narrow and nearly solid party-line vote of 231 to 201, the House approved the Republicans' plan to overhaul Medicare. President Clinton's response: "I will not let you destroy Medicare, and I will veto this bill." The plan, hailed by the G.O.P. as a historic rescue of the program, seeks to achieve $270 billion in savings over seven years by raising premiums, limiting payments to providers and encouraging seniors to opt for what legislators hope will be cheaper HMO and private-insurance plans subsidized...
...Speaker also anointed himself the Hill's master strategist and tactician. When the time came for Republicans to take a harder line toward Bill Clinton, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who set the tone. And when the time came to secure a powerful ally for the G.O.P.'s embattled overhaul of Medicare, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who cut the deal, by winning--some would say buying--the endorsement of the influential American Medical Association...
With contentious party-line votes, both the Ways and Means and the Commerce committees of the House approved the G.O.P.'s plan to overhaul Medicare and save $270 billion. Republicans hailed their plan as one that would rescue Medicare from bankruptcy and have the added benefit of giving seniors more health-care options. To no one's surprise, Democrats continued to attack the plan as an unnecessary hatchet job designed to finance a $245 billion G.O.P. tax cut for the wealthy. The acrimony between the two parties grew more bitter still when the American Medical Association announced it was endorsing...
...Democratic assault on the G.O.P.'s plans for a Medicare overhaul continued unabated. Attacking hearings on the subject as inadequate, rushed and stacked, Democrats walked out of a House Commerce Committee session devoted to the G.O.P.'s proposal, which seeks to channel more seniors into private insurance and HMO plans. Senate Democrats unveiled an alternate plan that they said would keep the current system intact and save $89 billion, a third of the sum advocated by Republicans...
...guaranteed benefits; instead, lump-sum grants to the states to spend as they see fit. Senate Republicans unveiled a similar plan. But the G.O.P.'s decision to hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed to use every stalling tactic at its disposal to prevent the plans from being rammed through...