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 by selecting as many as four candidates for comparison that can then be formatted into a printer-friendly pdf. The tool summarizes positions in four overall categories of access to health care coverage, cost containment, improving the quality of care and financing.
• Presidential Candidates Health Care Issues Side-by-Side
  A new, 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.
• Kaiser Health Tracking Polls: Election 2008
• Pulling It Together, From Drew Altman
  View installments from the new series by Kaiser's President and CEO where he pullsl together ideas and data from across the Foundation's work to try to paint a bigger picture that hopefully helps to illuminate critical health policy issues.
• Election 2008 Issue Brief on Covering the Uninsured: Options for Reform
• Election 2008 Brief Examines Medicare's Current and Future Policy Issues
• Health Care as a 2008 Election Issue
  This kaiserEDU issue module features research materials on health care and the 2008 election.
• Tutorial on Health Care and the Election
  In this narrated kaiserEDU slide tutorial, Claudia Deane, associate director of public opinion and media research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, discusses public opinion data on health care and the 2008 election, using Kaiser's regular surveys taken throughout the campaign.
• Health Insurance Coverage in America Chartbook
• The Uninsured: A Primer
• The Uninsured and Their Access to Care
• How Private Health Coverage Works: A Primer
• Health Care Costs: A Primer
• Five Basic Facts on Immigrants and Their Health Care
• States Moving Toward Comprehensive Reform

For more election and health reform resources, please see the Analysis main page.

• Poll Finds Most Americans Facing Serious Financial Challenges, Including Health Care Costs
  The June Health Tracking 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.
• 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.
• NPR/Kaiser/Harvard Survey: The Public on Requiring Individuals to Have Health Insurance
  This survey conducted jointly by NPR and public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health examines how the public views different approaches for expanding health coverage, including provisions that would require individuals to purchase insurance or parents to obtain coverage for their children. The survey looks at whether or not the public supports such provisions, the major reasons behind their views, and how opinions differ among Democrats, Republicans and independents.
• Survey Brief: Political Independents and Health Care
  This independent voter Survey Brief takes an in-depth look at their views on health care, including the saliency of the issue, which party best represents their own views, whether candidates should focus on lowering costs or expanding coverage and willingness to pay to cover the uninsured.

Health08.org maintains a list of links to other organizations following health care during the election season.

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