Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Patterns and Puzzles in Participation and Lobbying
- 3 The Political Logic of Political Decisions
- 4 Explaining Lobbying Decisions
- 5 Lobbying Decisions and the Health Care Reform Battle
- 6 Patterns of Recruitment and Participation in the Mass Public
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix A Sources and Coding for Survey Data
- Appendix B Interest Group Sampling Frame
- Appendix C Chronology of Health Care Reform Legislation
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Lobbying Decisions and the Health Care Reform Battle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Patterns and Puzzles in Participation and Lobbying
- 3 The Political Logic of Political Decisions
- 4 Explaining Lobbying Decisions
- 5 Lobbying Decisions and the Health Care Reform Battle
- 6 Patterns of Recruitment and Participation in the Mass Public
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix A Sources and Coding for Survey Data
- Appendix B Interest Group Sampling Frame
- Appendix C Chronology of Health Care Reform Legislation
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Step one, decide who will be the key votes on the
key committees charged with health care issues.
Step two, mobilize small business owners who are
influential in their states and districts and are willing
to deliver our message. Step three, take the
people from step two and aim them at the people
from step one.
John Motley, National Federation of Independent BusinessIf you don't want government gatekeepers telling
you what doctor you can see, call Congressman
Payne at (202) 225-4711 and tell him to vote “no”
on the Clinton health care plan. That's (202)
225-4711.
Citizens for a Sound Economy, radio advertisementFive days after his inauguration as the forty-second president of the United States, Bill Clinton appointed his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to head a task force responsible for drafting national health care reform legislation. Clinton was making good on a campaign promise to tackle an issue that had risen to national political prominence in the wake of Harris Wofford's upset victory in Pennsylvania's 1991 special election for the U.S. Senate. Clinton pledged that the task force would finish its work and that he would submit his plan to Congress within one hundred days. Due, however, to a more difficult than expected battle over his budget plan as well as various scandals and staff mistakes, Clinton's plan was not ready until late summer.
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- Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America , pp. 72 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999