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Several less ambitious bills that attempt to reform health insurance also risk making it worse. These include bills introduced by Dole and Senator Bob Packwood, the Oregon Republican; by House minority leader Bob Michel; and by a bipartisan group of House members with the unwieldy label of Rowland- Bilirakis-Cooper-Grandy. None stands much chance of passage...
...chop the wood that is before me to chop," he said in 1991. "I have a very keen sense that I am to do what I am called upon to do." Starr has been entrusted in the past with sensitive tasks such as reviewing the diaries of Bob Packwood for the Senate Ethics Committee. While Starr has never before worked as a prosecutor, colleagues expect him to approach the Whitewater job with a zeal for thoroughness. He will probably reinvestigate some areas already covered even as he moves into new ones. There's a lot of wood to chop...
...provisions that would require plans to carefully consider applications from fee-for-service doctors like Shuwarger, would make it harder to fire them after they are admitted, and would give them a say in the way the plans are run. "It's really ironic," says Senator Bob Packwood. "For years the A.M.A. and the other medical societies would not even let HMO doctors join them. Now they are fighting to get into HMOs...
...Moynihan sprang another surprise. Having failed to win more than half a dozen votes for his own version of the Clinton plan, Moynihan stunned members by announcing that the committee would begin voting on elements of a new plan by early this week. The committee's senior Republican, Bob Packwood, nearly jumped out of his seat with surprise. Vote on what? he asked. Moynihan turned to John Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican who had been working separately on a proposal with some Democratic members. "What do you guys have?" Moynihan asked...
...like Chafee, Durenberger and John Danforth of Missouri from signing on to any Democrat-brokered compromise that might give Clinton a victory. Of the Republican moderates, Dole said, "I like all of them, but we've got a party to think of." Dole announced that he and longtime ally Packwood would draft a G.O.P. alternative plan of their...