Word: blendon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Blendon, a Harvard expert on public opinion about health care, predicts that Clinton's plan will be popular because it offers "new benefits, no new taxes except for cigarettes," and control of the prices charged by doctors, hospitals and drug companies. Says he: "To be popular, the public has to think the money is coming from the provider community, which they think is doing too well anyway...
...Blendon, who is a member of a research team addressing the politics of health care reform, is concerned with creating a politically feasible compromise which balances the desires and needs of the people with those of the government...
...Blendon favors a compromise which is practical over one which would be ideal but unpalatable to Congress. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Blendon outlined a "middle ground" solution adjusted to the aims of both health care experts and the public...
...Blendon's proposals include elements of both public and private financing, a stage-like implementation, and a branch of the national commission to address wasted revenues...
...Blendon said he expects the plan will include universal coverage, subsidized by place of employment for those who are employed and by the government for those...