Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment Bruce Reed knew for sure that the health-care system was out of whack came in December 1991 when three men in dark suits paid him a visit. Reed, a little-known analyst working in a dimly lit Washington campaign office for dark-horse candidate Bill Clinton, listened politely as the three veteran lobbyists from a major pharmaceutical company pleaded with him to delete price controls from the health-care proposal that Clinton was soon to unveil. "If you guys can afford to send three high-priced lobbyists to buttonhole somebody like me," Reed told his visitors, "then...
...Reed, a Princeton grad and Rhodes scholar from Idaho, was struggling to remake the ungainly and politically unworkable idea for health-care reform favored by most Democrats. Called "pay or play," the plan would have required employers to extend basic insurance to all their employees or contribute to a public trust that would provide the entitlement instead. Huddling with a brainy Rhode Island business consultant named Ira Magaziner, Reed spent several weeks souping up "pay or play" into a more ambitious- sounding plan that would use savings from cost controls and more efficient management to insure 37 million uninsured Americans...
...Ralph Reed works to give the religious right a gentler face...
With four years on the job, Reed is still tinkering with the means of his mission but remains confident that he has his ends right. When addressing outsiders these days, he makes the reasonable proposition that the religious right merely wants a place at the table. To followers in Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago, he described the dimension of that place: "Our ambition is to be larger and more effective than both political parties combined." That is no recent epiphany; to Reed, it is the gospel...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...