TY - JOUR
T1 - Health care issues in presidential campaigns
AU - Navarro, Vicente
AU - Blumenthal, David
AU - Berenson, Robert
PY - 1990/3/1
Y1 - 1990/3/1
N2 - To the Editor: As senior health adviser to Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign and as a participant in many of the developments that Blumenthal and Berenson refer to in their article “Health Care Issues in Presidential Campaigns” (Sept. 28 issue),1 I disagree with their pessimistic observation that health care issues do not figure prominently in U.S. presidential campaigns and with their explanation for it — the failure of American voters to attach importance to health care issues. The facts show otherwise. According to ABC News exit polls,2 voters’ concern about health care ranked above their concern about prison furloughs (i.e., Willie.
AB - To the Editor: As senior health adviser to Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign and as a participant in many of the developments that Blumenthal and Berenson refer to in their article “Health Care Issues in Presidential Campaigns” (Sept. 28 issue),1 I disagree with their pessimistic observation that health care issues do not figure prominently in U.S. presidential campaigns and with their explanation for it — the failure of American voters to attach importance to health care issues. The facts show otherwise. According to ABC News exit polls,2 voters’ concern about health care ranked above their concern about prison furloughs (i.e., Willie.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199003013220920
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199003013220920
M3 - Letter
C2 - 2304516
AN - SCOPUS:0025302918
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 322
SP - 637
EP - 638
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 9
ER -