Article: GRAMM HAS A PLAN TO FIX MEDICARE NOW.(NEWS)

Byline: David Broder

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas ran a poor race for the Republican presidential nomination last year and disappeared from the contest before most voters heard him or his message. What Gramm is saying these days makes you wish he had the kind of ''bully pulpit'' only the White House provides.

Gramm has developed a chart talk that does for Medicare what another Texan, Ross Perot, did for the budget deficit with his 1992 presidential campaign infomercials: Make the problem clear. The difference is that Perot had a huge national audience while Gramm has to do his flip charts repeatedly to reach even a thousand people.

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