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.
Health Affairs sponsors this panel with representatives from all three presidential campaigns public opinion experts to discuss the role of health reform in the 2008 election. The briefing highlights the May/June issue of Health Affairs, which focuses on health reform.
The New America Foundation Health Policy Program hosts this meeting to discuss the intersection of health care and the economy and examine its implications for a national conversation about comprehensive health care reform.
A number of proposals to expand health insurance coverage -- including those put forward by leading Democratic candidates for President -- would allow people to enroll in a publicly-sponsored health plan, potentially competing side-by-side with private insurance plans. This Ask the Experts webcast examines this idea, looking at such questions as: Is Medicare a model for such a plan? What gaps in the current insurance system would it address? Is it an appropriate role for government? How would it affect health care costs and spending? Could it, in effect, lead to a single payer system?
This second National Federation of Independent Businesses Health Reform Forum features a panel of campaign surrogates for a discussion on the policies they believe will ultimately drive health care reform. The bipartisan panel provides diverse perspectives on what health care reform may look like in the next Administration and how best to prioritize driving down costs and expanding coverage.
The Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care, part of the Bipartisan Policy Center, will involve top practitioners and experts in targeted meetings and workshops to develop a framework to accelerate constructive discussion and implementation of policy solutions to the nation’s most pressing health care issues. This forum focuses on improving quality and value in the delivery of health care.
This forum explores the meaning and implications of the arguments about socialized medicine. A new paper from the Urban Institute's John Holahan and Stan Dorn examining the issue serves as a springboard for conversation.
