Throughout this election season, the Kaiser Family Foundation will provide analysis of health care issues addressed by the presidential candidates.
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.
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 new 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 Most Americans Facing Serious Financial Challenges, Including Health Care Costs
The June poll finds most Americans reporting one of seven major financial issues as a result of the recent economic downturn. Not surprisingly, with gas prices topping $4 per gallon nationally, people are most likely to cite paying for gas as a serious problem, followed by getting a well-paying job or a raise and paying for health care costs.
Pulling It Together: Moving Away From Employer Based Coverage: Don't Forget Public Opinion
In the latest essay from the series, "Pulling It Together, From Drew Altman," the Foundation's President and CEO explores one factor important for the success of any proposal moving away from employment-based health insurance that has not received much attention to date -- the public's willingness to accept such a big change. These public attitudes are examined in the context of very different proposals to move away from employment-based coverage.
Kaiser Fast Facts
This new component of the Kaiser Family Foundation Web site features QuickTakes and Kaiser Slides -- two new tools providing direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format.
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.
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.
