[Mb-civic] Bargaining for A Health Care Breakthrough - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Bargaining for A Health Care Breakthrough

By David S. Broder
Thursday, July 14, 2005; Page A25

When John Breaux retired from the Senate last year, many assumed that 
the let's-make-a-deal approach he had perfected in his 18 years of 
service had vanished with him. In an increasingly partisan and polarized 
Congress, the bargaining skills Breaux displayed seemed relics of 
another time.

It turns out that we underestimated the conservative Democrat from 
Louisiana, the canny Cajun whose willingness to negotiate across party 
lines had made him a valuable ally to both Republican and Democratic 
presidents.

<>In retirement to a Washington consultant's role, Breaux has resurfaced 
as the spark plug of a "Ceasefire on Health Care" campaign that already 
has achieved a few small successes and is aiming for much bigger 
breakthroughs in the effort to rescue America's dysfunctional medical 
delivery system.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071301988.html?nav=hcmodule 

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