By shareit in News report.
With the mid-term elections almost upon us, and campaigning for 2008 soon to begin, Kaiser President Drew Altman and Harvard professor Robert Blendon called on political leaders to speak out on the need for health care reform:
"What health needs most to rise up in American politics is for national political candidates, whether from the political left, right, or center, to begin talking about the issue again as they did in the early nineties. Most important of all are the presidential candidates, who receive so much national media attention. If even one major candidate begins to seriously address health reform, the others will be forced to follow suit. ... If [candidates] do play a leadership role on health, the media will follow, and the agenda-setting power of a debate driven from the top will meet the public's concerns rising up from the bottom like two weather fronts colliding."
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