2008 Presidential Candidate Health Care Proposals:
Side-by-Side Summary
This online tool allows users to customize side-by-sides and provides summaries of candidates' positions in four overall categories: access to health care coverage, cost containment, improving the quality of care and financing.
Updated: Issue Spotlight: Global Health and HIV/AIDS a
How the next U.S. president addresses global health challenges as well as the HIV/AIDS epidemic will have important implications for the U.S. and the world. This Issue Spotlight presents brief summaries of each candidate's position on global health and HIV/AIDS, along with a selection of quotes and relevant resources.
The Kaiser Family Foundation will conduct tracking polls related to the election, including the public's views of health reform and the presidential candidates' positions on health care.
NPR/Kaiser/Harvard Surveys On Health Care and the Economy in Ohio and Florida
Two surveys by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health examine the pocketbook problems facing people in Ohio and Florida -- two presidential swing states -- including their struggles with gas prices, getting and keeping a well-paying job and affording health care. The surveys also take an in-depth look at the impact of medical bills on family finances and health care and provide insights into the way health care costs affect people's daily life decisions.
Poll Finds Growing Number of Americans Report Problems Paying Medical Bills and Delaying and Skipping Care Due to Costs
Kaiser's final election 2008 tracking poll finds more people are reporting problems with health care bills, and paying for health care retains a solid hold on the public's list of their top economic concerns. Nearly half of the public reports someone in their family skipping pills, postponing or cutting back on medical care they said they needed in the past year due to the cost of care.
Interactive Side-by-Side Comparison Tool of Presidential Candidates on Key Health Care Issues
An interactive tool allows users to compare presidential candidates Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Barack Obama's proposals and positions on a range of health care issues not necessarily addressed in the candidates' health care reform proposals. This side-by-side builds upon the site's existing comparison of the candidates' health reform proposals.
Ask the Experts with Obama and McCain Advisors on Health Reform Plans
Kaisernetwork.org's Ask the Experts live webcasts featured advisors to presidential candidates discussing the candidates' health reform proposals, which differ significantly in their aim and approach. During these webcasts, details of each candidate's proposals and the rationale behind them were discussed and questions from viewers were answered by the candidates' advisors. Watch the discussion with Jay Khosla, health policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain. Watch the discussion with David Cutler, health policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.
Families USA and the Federation of American Hospitals organized Presidential Candidate Forums, a series of hour-long forums designed to elicit detailed discussion with Democratic and Republican presidential candidates about health reform. View archived webcasts of the Forums.
Sens. McCain and Obama On The Issues: Health Care Reform
AIDSVote.org
A nonpartisan HIV/AIDS candidate and voter education campaign.
AHIP: Campaign for an American Solution
A campaign to build support for health care reform based on principles of coverage, affordability, quality, value, choice and portability.
