Word: altmans
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TIME invited a panel of five experts to help make sense of the impact of rising health-care costs on business. Joining Darling were Drew Altman, president and ceo of the Kaiser Family Foundation; Uwe Reinhardt, a health-care economist at Princeton University; Gail Shearer, director of health-policy analysis for Consumers Union; and Gail Wilensky, an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation...
...ALTMAN: The economy will not change the trajectory of health-care costs. Those are going...
...ALTMAN: Every rock we looked under, we found problems for employers; more than 70% of them plan to ask their employees to pick up a greater share of the tab next year...
...ALTMAN: The day will come when almost 65% of all voters will be 50 or older. So that is going to fundamentally transform the politics of this issue. It also means we will focus more on issues like prescription drugs and less on equally or more compelling problems like the uninsured...
...ALTMAN: Every time I increase our pension benefit to fight companies that have stock options in Silicon Valley, my younger employees go crazy because they couldn't care less about the pension...