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.
Brookings Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state, and local levels.
Census Bureau: Health Insurance Coverage: 2006 The number of uninsured U.S. residents grew in 2006, according to data released by the Census Bureau. To compile the data, the Census Bureau collected information about the health insurance status of 300,000 individuals.
Center for Health Transformation
Center for Health Transformation's mission is to grow a movement that will accelerate the adoption of transformational health solutions and policies that create better health and more choices at lower cost.
Citizens' Health Care Working Group
The Working Group is a nonpartisan group authorized by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, charged with developing recommendations for the President and Congress to provide U.S. citizens, as the health care that works for all Americans.
Opportunity '08
Opportunity 08, a partnership between the Brookings Institution and ABC News, aims to help presidential candidates and the public focus on critical issues facing the nation. A new paper, America's Economy: Headed for Crisis (PDF), urges 2008 presidential candidates to prepare themselves and voters to make "real choices" on budget and entitlement program issues.
Campaigns, Initiatives and Proposals
08StopAIDS.org
Several groups have partnered to present a platform to the presidential candidates about addressing HIV/AIDS around the world.
AFL-CIO: Health Care Fix
The AFL-CIO's campaign seeks to expand health insurance to all U.S. residents by the end of 2009.
AHIP: A Vision for Reform
A set of targeted policy reforms developed by America's Health Insurance Plans.
AIDSVote.org
A nonpartisan HIV/AIDS candidate and voter education campaign.
AMA: Voice for the Uninsured
A three-year campaign and a proposal launched by The American Medical Association to spur action to cover the uninsured.
American Public Media: Engage 08: Health Care Idea Generator
This widget allows the public to share ideas and solutions regarding America's health care system. Ideas ranging from small improvements to sweeping overhauls can be entered and discussed.
Better Health Care Together
The goal of Better Health Care Together is to ensure that a new American health care system is in place by 2012.
Bipartisan Policy Center: Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care The Leaders' Project seeks to develop and promote policies that can attract bipartisan support from policymakers and lay the necessary foundation for providing all Americans access to quality, affordable health coverage. The Bipartisan Policy Center was established by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and George Mitchell (D-Maine).
CED: Quality, Affordable Health Care For All
A new report from the Committee of Economic Development examines the current U.S. employer-based health care system and makes recommendations for a universal, market-based health-insurance system.
CovertheUninsured.org
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has integrated the resources of Cover the Uninsured Week and the Covering Kids & Families Back-to-School Campaign to focus on demonstrating broad support for the reauthorization of SCHIP and the need to cover America's uninsured children.
Divided We Fail
AARP, Business Roundtable, and SEIU sponsor this campaign to encourage presidential candidates to focus on health care and financial security.
Federation of American Hospitals
The Federation's "Health Coverage Passport" proposal aims at ensuring health coverage for all Americans by building on the nation's existing health-care system.
Mayo Clinic Health Care Reform Recommendations Over the last two years, Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center has convened more than 400 national thought leaders for a series of events to help develop new, consensus-driven principles to guide the reform process. This report summarizes these activities to date.
NationalAIDSStrategy.org
A call to action from more than 100 organizations for the next President to develop a national AIDS strategy.
ONE Vote 08
ONE Vote '08 is a bi-partisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2008 presidential election.
Physicians for a National Health Program Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program.
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.
Commonwealth Fund:
Health Policy Reform: Beyond the 2008 Elections
This report draws on the the Commonwealth Fund's work during the past three years, as well as other research, to provide journalists with an evidence-based context for understanding the fundamental problems plaguing our current health system, as well as policy options under consideration for addressing these problems.
National Breast Cancer Coalition: Breast Cancer Caucus
Presidential candidates of both parties detail their specific approaches to breast cancer research, prevention and care, as well as outline their plans for universal health care.
National Journal: Judging The 2008 Health Plans
Health care specialists assess the proposals from the top-tier candidates and rate each plan on probable impact on the uninsured, government spending, consumer costs, employer-based insurance, and quality of care.
NAMI: Bringing Mental Healthcare to the Ballot
Several presidential candidates outline their positions on mental health care issues in a questionnaire from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
WebMD: Health Matters '08
Election site launched by WebMD featuring interviews with experts, election news, and a comparison of the candidates' views on health care issues.
Community Catalyst: A Consumer Guide to State Health Reform A guide created by Community Catalyst and Families USA to help state advocates build strong foundations for reform and expanded coverage, with detailed descriptions of the health care system, links to case studies, additional resources and a glossary of terms.
State of the States (PDF)
This report -- conducted as part of the State Coverage Initiatives program, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is administered by Academy Health -- details state initiatives implemented in 2006 to expand health care coverage and the factors motivating such efforts.
