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Article: Health Care: Figuring Out What Works and What Doesn't
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 23, 1992
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The recent verbal sparring between presidential candidates Bush
and Clinton about health care reform has at last placed health care
reform where it belongs: at the top of the American agenda. I'm not
pleased when health care reform - an urgent issue that touches each
of us - becomes infected with political invective.
The president's rhetoric comparing Democratic health care
reform proposals with the KGB was intemperate and obfuscating, as is
Sen. Jay Rockefeller's response comparing the Bush plan with the S&L
bailout. When I served as surgeon general, I did my best to lift
health care issues above partisan politics. A few days ago, Bill
Clinton asked me what we could do to place the ...