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Editorial: Bipartisanship crucial for reforms.(Opinions)(Brief Article)(Editorial)

Business Insurance, November, 2002

WIll a Congress and an executive branch controlled by the same party be more successful in reaching agreements on employee benefit and risk management issues than a divided government has been? If that is to happen, Republican lawmakers and the Bush administration must study the mistakes of the past-and avoid repeating them.

Remember 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress? Arrogant Democrats froze out Republicans in developing a health insurance reform package, and, not surprisingly, the plan failed spectacularly. Republicans, too, have been guilty of political arrogance. In the 1980s, when they controlled the Senate and the executive branch, tort reforms may have had a much better chance of passage had...

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