Detroit Free Press: Congress should scale back on health reform, consultant says

If health reform bills are to succeed, Congress needs to pare back the legislation and decide what's most affordable and doable, a health futurist told a Detroit group Tuesday.

Democrats tried for too much and "the opportunity to provide an affordable health insurance package for people went right out the window," said Jeff Goldsmith, president of HealthFutures, a Charlottesville, Va., consulting and health strategy firm.

Goldsmith was the keynote speaker at an Inforum lunch titled "Beyond Health Care Reform" at the Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn.

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