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Article: Health Care Reform Advocate to New York Insiders Event: "It Will Be a Centrist Compromise or No Deal At All".
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- November 13, 2008
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Kaiser Family Foundation President Drew Altman, a renowned commentator and expert on health care, spoke to a group of high-level New York City insiders Thursday and said, "Health care is being defined now by affordability. It's been defined by the American people not as a health care problem but as a pocketbook issue. And the train that is leaving the station in the Congress is the 'economy train' and legislation related to that, so unless the issue is reframed as an economic issue, I think it will get pushed aside over the next several years."
Altman was interviewed by National Public Radio's Robert Siegel at the Policy Breakfast Series hosted by Public Agenda and the ...