Deadly Spin by Potter Wendell

Author:Potter, Wendell [Potter, Wendell]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

Ideologues and think tanks launched lurid attacks on the plan. Small-business members of the National Federation of Independent Business and other associations mobilized against [a provision in the bill that would have required all employers to offer coverage to their employees]. Portrayals of the plan as a bureaucratic takeover by welfare-state liberals were regular grist for Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing hosts of hundreds of news/talk radio programs that reach tens of millions of listeners (indeed, more than half of voters surveyed at polling places in the November 1994 election said they tuned in to such shows, and the most frequent listeners voted Republican by a 3-to-1 ratio). Similarly, Christian Coalition groups, already attacking Bill and Hillary Clinton on cultural issues, began to devote substantial resources to the anti–health care reform crusade. Moderate Republicans who had initially been inclined to work out some sort of compromise began to backpedal in the face of such antireform pressures from within their own party. And interest groups whose leaders had been prepared to bargain over reforms soon were pressured by constituents and Republican leaders to back off from cooperation with the Clinton administration and congressional Democrats.9

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