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.
Pulling It Together: Health IN the Economy
Will health fade as a public concern as the economy rises as the public's top priority? How are concerns about health and the economy linked? Does the rise of economic concerns present obstacles or opportunities for health reform? In his latest Pulling It Together essay, Foundation President Drew Altman takes on these questions, drawing from the Foundation's latest polls and analyses in a column called "Health IN the Economy."
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.
Poll Finds Americans Rank Health Care Near Top of Their Economic Woes
Health care costs rank among Americans' top personal economic problems, and their struggles to deal with those costs have affected both their financial well-being and their families' health care, a new poll finds.
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008: March 2008
Growing economic worries have led to a sharp rise in the economy as a presidential campaign issue, eclipsing health and Iraq. At the same time, health care continues to play a role both as an independent issue, and as part of the voters' growing concerns about the economy.
Viewpoints: The Heath Care Debate
This new series 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.
Interviews available this week are with Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack, National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO and former Governor of Michigan John Engler, National Medical Association Executive Director Dr. Mohammad Akhter and National Governors Association Executive Director Ray Scheppach.
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.
health08.org will provide links to other organizations following health care during the election season.
AIDSVote.org
A nonpartisan HIV/AIDS candidate and voter education campaign.
Alliance for Health Reform: A Reporter's Toolkit On The Uninsured
The toolkit, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is designed for reporters covering health issues during Campaign 2008, and features links to useful web sites and articles on the uninsured.
