     And I'm Linda Wertheimer. We're about to dive into an
autumn of intensive lobbying over health-care legislation. All
the big interests in a multitrillion dollar industry are working
to make sure the bill doesn't hurt them.  INSKEEP: And Linda,
that's one reason we're glad you're sitting in with us this
week, because you've covered Washington for many years. And that
includes another year when Linda covered a story where lobbyists
flooded the capital. It was another year when Congress passed a
bill affecting almost every American.  WERTHEIMER: It was 1986,
and the subject was taxes. The tax code was not working for
average Americans. Newspapers reported cases of some working
people actually writing bigger checks to the tax man than very
wealthy people, even heads of major corporations. Although the
highest tax rate was 50 percent, few paid it because there were
so many deductions or loopholes available to the rich.  The 1986
tax restructuring would eventually lower that top rate to just
28 percent, while