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Smaller Text Alerts  The Labor Day parade has begun to wind its
way through downtown Denver, and Ellen Moran has to raise her
voice above the brass band to explain how Dottie Lamm is going
to beat Republican Ben Nighthorse-Campbell in the Colorado
Senate race this fall. The presidential sex scandal may be the
only thing on the minds of people in Washington, explains Moran,
who is Lamm's campaign manager, but outside the Beltway voters
still care about the Issues: education, crime, health care.
Especially health care. According to Moran, Lamm spent much of
the summer talking to "real people" and meditating on their
demands for HMO reform. Just the other day, Moran says, Lamm
spoke to a woman who suffers from "really bad acid reflux. The
HMO changed her medication four times." That's the nature of the
crisis in managed care, Moran explains -- "it affects
everybody."  More resources for indigestion? This is the issue
with which Dottie Lamm, a 61-year-ol