Below is a link to an on-line tool from the Kaiser Family Foundation that compares the Presidential Candidates’ Health Plans.
The summaries were created by Foundation staff and consultants, and do not include critical information about whether the plans would actually achieve the stated goals, such as expanding access or controlling costs. For critical commentary on the candidates’ health plans, see Dr. Don McCanne’s Health Policy Quote of the Day, archived at https://pnhp.org/news/categories/Quote%20of%20the%20Day/
Interactive Online Tool Provides Side-by-Side Comparisons of Presidential Candidate Health Care Proposals
As part of its ongoing effort to inform debate about health care issues in the 2008 presidential election, the Kaiser Family Foundation has released an interactive online tool to compare the health care proposals of presidential candidates. The tool, 2008 Presidential Candidate Health Care Proposals: Side-by-Side Summary, summarizes positions in four overall categories of access to health care coverage, cost containment, improving the quality of care and financing.
The online tool allows users to customize side-by-side comparisons by selecting as many as four candidates for comparison that can then be formatted into a printer-friendly format. Users will also be able to print out documents comparing all the Democratic candidates and all the Republican candidates.
The candidates’ summaries were prepared by Foundation staff with the assistance of Health Policy Alternatives, Inc. They are based on information appearing on the candidates’ websites and supplemented with information from candidate speeches, the campaign debates and news reports. The sources of information are identified for each candidate’s summary (with Internet links). Information will be updated regularly as the campaign unfolds.
The new tool is part of health08.org, a website operated by the Foundation providing analysis of health policy issues, regular public opinion surveys, and news and video coverage from the campaign trail. For further information on the side-by-side comparison or other health08.org efforts contact us at health08web@kff.org.