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Article: National reform coming, health care expert says
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- November 17, 2006
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The health care radar screen is blipping toward national health
care reform, but it probably won't happen until after the 2008
presidential election, a Washington, D.C., expert on the issue said
Thursday.
"History tells us we're likely to respond when employers can no
longer tolerate rising health care costs -- and I think we're
getting close to the breaking point -- and when the uninsured become
a middle-class concern, not just a concern for the poor," David
Helms said during a talk at Colorado College.
Helms, president and chief executive of AcademyHealth, a
professional society for health policy and health services research,
said the employerbased health care system places America at a ...