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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
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.

Presidential Candidate Forums
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Families USA and the Federation of American Hospitals organize this series of hour-long forums designed to elicit detailed discussion with Democratic and Republican presidential candidates about health reform.

View archived webcasts of Presidential Candidate Forums.


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Campaign Trail Webcasts
  • Ask the Experts: High-Risk Pools
    July 15, 2008
  •  View kaisernetwork.org's Ask the Experts for a webcast looking at state high-risk insurance pools.
  • 2008 Election Presidential Candidate Debates
    July 11, 2008
  •  Throughout the election season, health08.org presents coverage of health care issues addressed by the presidential candidates during the debates.
  • What Role for Industry: Setting the Comparative Effectiveness Agenda
    July 11, 2008
  •  Center for Science in the Public Interest sponsors this panel on comparative effectiveness. Panelists examine the presidential candidates' proposals and questions such as: who should conduct these studies? Who will set the new agency's agenda?
  • What Can Massachusetts Learn from The German Health Care System?
    July 9, 2008
  •  Brandeis University sponsors this event which discusses Germany's efforts to implement an individual mandate similar to the one in Massachusetts.
  • Forum on Health Care Financing
    June 25, 2008
  •  Better Health Care Together hosts this forum on ways to improve health care financing.
  • Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate
    June 11, 2008
  •  This series, Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate, features interviews with leaders of organizations representing health care providers, insurers, policymakers, employers, labor unions and consumers sharing their views on shortcomings in the nation's health care system and how it could be improved.
  • AcademyHealth 25th Annual Research Meeting - Day 2
    June 9, 2008
  •  The 25th Annual Research Meeting, sponsored by AcademyHealth, brings together health services researchers, providers and key decision makers to address the challenges confronting the nation's health care delivery system.
  • AcademyHealth 25th Annual Research Meeting - Day 1
    June 8, 2008
  •  The 25th Annual Research Meeting, sponsored by AcademyHealth, brings together health services researchers, providers and key decision makers to address the challenges confronting the nation's health care delivery system.

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Videos From Other Organizations
 
Videos/Podcasts
Health Reform Sound Bites: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain

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More Videos/Podcasts

These gateway pages link to some of health08.org's video library by common topics and events.

Viewpoints: The Heath Care Debate
Health08.org's interview series.

Ask the Experts Webcasts on Health Reform
Selection of health reform-related webcasts from kaisernetwork.org's "Ask the Experts" series.

Policy Adviser and Issue Panel Webcasts
View dozens of webcasts with candidate health policy advisors and panels on specific health reform issues.

2008 Primary Election Presidential Candidate Debates
View coverage of health care issues addressed by the presidential candidates during the primary election debates.

Video and Podcasts
Candidates

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