Voters and Health Reform in the 2008 Presidential Election
Voters view health care as an important issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Most voters favor major changes in our health care system. Registered voters who planned to vote for Senator Obama placed higher priority on increasing coverage for the uninsured, and Senator McCain's supporte...
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Published in | The New England journal of medicine Vol. 359; no. 19; pp. 2050 - 2061 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Massachusetts Medical Society
06.11.2008
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Summary: | Voters view health care as an important issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Most voters favor major changes in our health care system. Registered voters who planned to vote for Senator Obama placed higher priority on increasing coverage for the uninsured, and Senator McCain's supporters gave higher priority to health care reforms that would not raise taxes.
Registered voters who planned to vote for Senator Obama placed higher priority on increasing coverage for the uninsured, and those who planned to vote for Senator McCain placed higher priority on health care reforms that would not raise taxes.
The 2008 presidential election season has been unique in a number of ways. What insights about future health policy will the election give us? This is the second in a series of reports published in the
Journal
that examines this question.
The first report focused on health care's role in each party's presidential primaries. Its central conclusion was that the adherents to the two major political parties had substantially different visions of the future of health policy in America.
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These findings have been reinforced by subsequent surveys of each party's convention delegates. In these surveys, a random sample of attendees . . . |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJMsr0807717 |