Potential Presidential Leaders’ Views on Health Care System

I don't know the bend of the Kaiser Family Foundation, but it's information. My problem: there is so much information to sift throught. If you find a bias let me know.

For more information and videos go here. Another site with side by side information is the Kaiser Health08 website.

Health care comparison

I'm always in search of sites that compares candidates plans with as little bias as possible.

PBS's show NOW did such a comparison along with help from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It includes many related links.

Kaiser Family Foundation also posts a side-by-side summary of all the candidates.

Not that anyone would change their mind on a candidate but at least you'll know where he/she stands on the issue. Then we can have a stronger conversation on the topic.

An 800 Pound Gorilla

"Everybody knows that there are a couple of 800-pound gorillas under the rug, but nobody wants to talk about them because that is not the route to the Oval Office," said economist Robert D. Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute public policy center. "The situation is unsustainable in the long run, but the long run is in the future, and our political system operates very much in the present."
Quote taken from LA Times.

I agree. If we know it's there and everyone is tripping over it why not acknowledge the beast and tell us what you are going to do. If you don't have an extermination plan let us know you don't. We know you don't just be a politician that tells the truth. Medicare and Social Security is not sustainable - I knew that in high school. The numbers back then told me that. Yes we could count that high back then!

I'm OK with the idea - I'll be paying into a system that I will never benefit from. I knew it was going to happen when my first paycheck arrived with all the deductions I gave to the Government. Some has to end the torture and I don't want it to be my kids. Do I like it? NO! Do I want someone else to bear the burden? Yes, but that is wrong. Social Security was not meant as a retirement plan. Do some research!

Poligraphy on Healthcare reform

Ever wanted to see on a graph what the presidential candidates thought about the issues.

Click here to find out. Are there any other issues?

Maybe. A poll came out at the end of the 2007 that listed important issues in the following order of importance.

IRAQ - 35%

HEATHCARE - 30%

ECONOMY - 21%

IMMIGRATION - 17%

This Poll came from a Health Care Organization. Want to see poll, look here.