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I Don't Know If There's Any Secret Recipe. Just A Lot Of Hard Work. Pay Attention To Your Constituents. I Always Had A Great Iowa Staff That Did All My Great Constituent Service Work. And I Found That People Would Forgive Me For A Lot Of My "liberal Sins" Because I Paid Attention To The Home Front.

Let's Face It, In America Today We Don't Have A Health Care System, We Have A Sick Care System. We Wait Until People Become Obese, Develop Chronic Diseases, Or Become Disabled - And Then We Spend Untold Hundreds Of Billions Annually To Try To Make Them Better.

When I First Arrived To Congress In 1975, I Would Spend Several Hours Every Week With Republicans - Having Lunch, Drinking A Beer. But By The Time I Left Last Year, That Was A Rarity. Every Moment Of Free Time Is Eaten Up By Fundraising. And The Advent Of All These Groups That Can Threaten Passage Of This Or That With An Avalanche Of Money Or A Primary Opponent Has Poisoned Our Politics.

America's Health Care System Is In Crisis Precisely Because We Systematically Neglect Wellness And Prevention.

Today, Only Two Groups In The United States Have Total Immunity From Lawsuits: Foreign Diplomats And Hmos. We Believe It's Time To End Diplomatic Immunity For Hmos. Holding Them Accountable Is The Only Way To Guarantee That You Get The Health Care Your Family Deserves.