Word: blendon
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Robert J. Blendon, Lee professor of health policy and management, said Harvard as a single institution would have a tough time finding a solution to the problem. "It's a national problem," Blendon said, "I don't think there is any great cure...
...Blendon did say he thought the letter should be taken seriously as a complaintabout Harvard's failure to communicate its healthcare policy to workers. "I think people shouldn'tfeel as alienated as the letter makes it sound,"Blendon said...
...have the highest health care costs and the least number of insured citizens of any industrialized country," said Dr. Robert J. Blendon, professor of Health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. "In other industrialized nations there is no such thing as an uninsured' citizen...
...Bush plan too--and the Buchanan plan, by extension--would have the down side of offering the least amount of government control, and therefore the least potential for cost control, said Blendon...
However, Bush's system would have the advantage of allowing people a choice between competing health care plans, Blendon noted...