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Article: Health care: high profile issue.
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- June 1, 1994
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A DEMOCRATIC PERSPECTIVE
The ceremonial first pitch thrown by President Clinton in the Cleveland Indian's new ballpark to kick-off the '94 baseball season also coincides with the start of the congressional debate on his health care reform plan.
During the past six months since he unveiled his proposal, it has not been smooth sailing for the President (with opposition to his plan almost doubling in national polls during that time). But in politics, as it certainly is in baseball, the games in spring training don't count for much.
Granted, the campaign against the Clinton plan by its critics has been effective, but the debate on health care reform has a ...