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 a 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.
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.
Public Opinion Spotlight Examines the Role of Health Care as an Election Issue
This new Kaiser public opinion spotlight looks at current and historical polling data to examine the role health care has played in elections, as well as the potential role that health care might play in the 2008 presidential race. The spotlight compiles and analyzes public opinion data from Kaiser surveys and other sources.
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. The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 also examines the views of political independents and of those who name health care as one of their most important voting issues.
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.
Analysis Finds Presidential Candidates Health Care Platforms Reflect Sharp Differences in Perspectives of Likely Primary Voters
With the next wave of presidential primary elections quickly approaching, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation find that the sharply contrasting health care platforms of the leading Democratic and Republican presidential candidates reflect dramatic differences in the perspectives of their primary voters. Based on a new Kaiser/Harvard poll of likely primary voters in early primary states, as well as data from 10 other recent polls, their analysis appears in the Jan. 24 New England Journal of Medicine.
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008
This December 2007 poll finds that Iraq continues to top the list of issues that the public wants to hear presidential candidates talk about, with more than a third (35%) naming the war as one of the top two issues in an open-ended question. Health care (30%) ranks second, followed by the economy (21%) and immigration (17%). Health care continues to rank second behind Iraq for Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike.
Public Views on SCHIP Reauthorization
This October 2007 survey conducted jointly by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health examines the public's views and opinions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the pending legislation surrounding its reauthorization.
Awareness and Perceptions of the Movie "Sicko"
This August 2007 survey finds that although only 4% of adults say they have watched Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko," almost half of the public (46%) had seen the movie or heard or read something about it a little over a month after its national release. Among those familiar with "Sicko," 45% said they have had a discussion with friends, co-workers, and family about the U.S. health system as a result of the movie; 43% said they were more likely to think there is a need to reform the health system.
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.
Massachusetts Health Reform Tracking Survey
The poll, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, finds support for the new health insurance law has increased.
Kaiser Health Security Watch
This is a set of tracking questions that together serve as a barometer for monitoring people's level of concern about their ability to access and pay for health care.
