Presidential candidates present positions on key health care issues
Posted by AccountingWEB in on 10/10/2008 - 07:21
The Kaiser Family Foundation has added two new resources on its health08.org Web site detailing presidential candidates Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Barack Obama's stance on key health care issues, building upon health08.org's existing comparison of the candidates' health reform proposals.
A new, interactive tool allows users to compare the candidates proposals and positions on a range of health care issues -- biomedical research, care coordination and prevention, health information technology, HIV/AIDS, long-term care, Medicaid and SCHIP, medical malpractice, Medicare, mental health parity, prescription drugs, racial and ethnic disparities, transparency and comparative effectiveness, veterans' health, and women's health – issues not necessarily addressed in the candidates' health care reform proposals. These comparisons are based on information compiled from the candidates' Web sites and speeches and campaign debates.
A separate side-by-side comparison of the candidates' health reform proposals is also available on health08.org.
The site now features a new compilation of video clips of the candidates speaking about various aspects of health reform including expanding coverage, employer-sponsored coverage, costs of coverage, the government's role in health care, the insurance market, preventive care and tax subsidies for health insurance.
The clips are drawn from health08.org's extensive webcast library.
Health08.org also will offer a series of election briefs, with facts and background information on important health care issues, as well as broad policy options and questions to help evaluate the candidates' proposals.
The first brief, Covering the Uninsured: Options for Reform is available now. Briefs on health care costs and other health issues will be posted in the coming weeks.
The Foundation's health08.org Web site serves as a hub of information about health and the election, providing original polling and analysis produced by Kaiser, news summaries and videos and podcasts from the campaign trail, and easy access to health-related resources from the campaigns, other organizations and news outlets.
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Gail Perry, CPA
Obama is right on health care
We already pay for poor people's health care thru Medicaid and thru higher medical costs from people who don't pay their bills passed on to us to make up for it. It's the middle class that is struggling with health care and McCain will make it worse with his idiotic plan which will cause everyone to drop their health insurance at work, and his miniscule credit of $5K is not enough for family coverage for anyone. health care should be a right not a privilege for the wealthy.
Health Care Solution??
The solution will take 20 years but then the problem would go away.
Upon birth every child should get a MANDATORY health insurance savings account. Upon reaching the age of 21 this account would be used to pay the premiums for the account holder's children (NOT the account holder)until their death. Upon the death of all the children, the remaining funds would be split 50-50, half to the estate and half to a medical infrastructure fund.
Rod S. - Oregon
Healthcare Reform
One of the reasons that healthcare costs keep rising is because the consumer has no idea what the "true costs" of the services are. Senator Obama's plan will just perpetuate hiding the costs of healthcare by passing more costs through the insurance companies. This is socialized medicine. Consumers should be able to buy their own insurance much as we buy car insurance. Then consumers can choose what options they want and how much they are willing to pay for them.
Jim from VA
No socialized medicine in the U.S.
Call it what you want, it isn't universal health care the Democrats are promoting, it is SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. It doesn't work anywhere in the world except Norway, which only has eight million people. Obama wants to socialize medicine and this entire country. Don't fall for it.