CAHI

Health care reform is taking center stage in the upcoming elections, and candidates are creating health care reform agendas and running ads touting their past legislative successes or making claims about current reform proposals. Those ads can be helpful in disseminating important information, but it can also be hard for the public and the media, who may not follow these issues regularly and over an extended period of time, to assess their accuracy.

CAHI hopes to fill that void by analyzing claims made in political ads, as they emerge. This section of our website is a companion piece to our "2008 Presidential Candidates on Health Care Reform", which highlights the candidates' proposals for reform.

This is not meant to be an endorsement of any candidate, but we hope it will inform the public debate on health care reform.

Election Central Blog -- See what our health policy experts are saying about health reform proposals.

This week....

Clinton on SCHIP
"...the Boston Globe has weighed in claiming that Clinton didn’t even really support the legislation..."

Clinton vs. Obama, Part I
"...how can Clinton claim that if you like your insurance you can keep it when she knows full well — or at least should know — that her reforms will so fundamentally change the market there is no guarantee who will still be selling health insurance or what they will sell?"

CAHI on the Candidates

2008 Presidential Candidates on Health Care Reform -- Updated March 5

2008 Presidential Candidates At-a-Glance

Hillary's False Claims -- Op-ed by Merrill Matthews, Ph.D.

CAHI on the Issues

Small Steps to Big Reform

Guaranteed Issue

Community Rating

Health Savings Accounts

Health Care Safety Nets

Health Insurance Mandates

Purchasing Health Insurace Across State Lines