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...idea that every American should have access to affordable health care has been gathering political force since Democrat Harris Wofford used it to trounce former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in the Pennsylvania Senate race last fall. Here, Democrats believed, was a domestic issue they could use to help drive George Bush from the White House -- and Republicans feared they were right. And so last week the President, unnerved by declining approval ratings and a tepid response to the hodgepodge of tax cuts he proposed in his State of the Union address, unveiled his own prescription for reforming the health-care...
According to a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, former attorney general Richard Thornburgh, who was defeated last month in his bid for a Pennsylvania seat in the U.S. Senate, said the group denies students "the right to compare prices and discounts among schools, just as they would in shopping for any other service...
...something money can buy, as Bush demonstrated when he hired Roger Ailes to de-wimp him in 1988. Clinton's hired gun is James Carville, the Democratic version of G.O.P spin doctor Lee Atwater. Carville just helped the darkest of horses, Harris Wofford, destroy former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh's 44-point lead and win a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania...
Suddenly health care is becoming the litmus test of American politics. It was a central issue in this month's senatorial race in Pennsylvania. Little- known Democrat Harris Wofford, who called for a health-care plan that would cover all Americans, easily defeated former Governor Dick Thornburgh. As the 1992 presidential campaign gathers steam, every Democratic candidate is putting universal health care at the top of his agenda. While Nebraska's Bob Kerrey proposes a comprehensive plan that would require substantial new taxes, others, including Bill Clinton and Tom Harkin, are fashioning less costly approaches that emphasize preventive care. Says...
Harris Wofford, the liberal Democrat who upset former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh for a Senate seat from Pennsylvania two weeks ago, understood the impatience of working-class voters with Democrats who talk more about the agendas of gay and feminist activists than about lunch-box economic issues. Wofford avoided that mistake by talking mostly about jobs and health insurance. Fred Steeper, a Republican pollster who surveyed Louisiana voters before the recent primary vote, observes that "Duke is tapping into the same middle-class frustration as Wofford" -- but in a far more destructive...