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Divided We Fail: Debates Fall Short in Addressing Health Care and Financial Security Issues

Published in Managed Care Business Week, July 10th, 2007

With Presidential debates failing to address America's top domestic issues, the Divided We Fail group announced a debate question tracker will debut after this week's PBS forum at Howard University. Only 6.4 percent of total questions asked in the first five national debates focused on health care and financial security.

"It makes very little sense that the top domestic issues Americans care about aren't being addressed by the candidates or their questioners," said AARP CEO Bill Novelli. "With this tracking system, coupled with our aggressive outreach to moderators as well as candidates alike, we can monitor whether our political leaders are talking about the health and...

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