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Keynote Presentation--Julie Rovner
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... Keynote Presentation
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... Now, health care was not the top issue in most of the exit polls -- that 
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... The second reason I think health care is likely to come up soon is Senator Ted Kennedy's last hoorah. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 8 months, you certainly know that Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is undergoing treatment for a malignant brain tumor.
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... You only have to look up at Capitol Hill to see the big three automakers begging lawmakers for a bailout to see what health care costs are doing to our manufacturing base -- what there is left of it. Okay, the woes of the auto industry are about more than just health care cost but they've played much more than a minor role.
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... It's named for Brandeis University health policy professor and longtime Washington policy maven, Stewart Altman. It holds that every stake holder's second choice for health reform is the status quo.


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