Candidates Wrestle with Health Care Fix
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Description: As the presidential race nears an end, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry put extra focus on health care -- and the small percentage of undecided voters who say the issue could affect how they cast their ballot.
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The cost crunch in health care is being made one of the most potent domestic issues of the election year.
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Bloomberg - May 30 (Bloomberg) -- For the leading Democratic presidential hopefuls, making health care more affordable is a tale of two villains. Barack Obama is targeting drugmakers, while Hillary Clinton is taking aim at insurers.
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HAMILTON, Mont. -- Sen. Conrad Burns gazed at a debate audience and asked if anyone could guess who was blocking efforts in Washington to control health-care costs.
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The 2 major Presidential candidates were asked to answer the question, &quot;How would you ensure access to health care for the citizens of the United States?
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are promoting very different plans for improving the nation&#39;s troubled health care system, either of which could dramatically change how millions
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It&#39;s a matter on the minds of many Americans and arguably the top domestic issue in the presidential election. With medical costs and premiums rising, health insurance is influencing how people
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.
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Peggy Sherwood isnât sure she can trust either the Democratic or Republican presidential candidate when he says he can solve the nationâs health-care problems.
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Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has criticized in his campaign to unseat President Bush.
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For all of the past year&#39;s hand-wringing over health care, debates over ways to expand insurance coverage and rein in costs have been all but been drowned out in the
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Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of unisured Americans, such a plan would unlikely cut costs.
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Although a raucous debate over national security has dominated the presidential campaign, President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry differ even more sharply on how to provide better health care to more Americans.
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President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, both have plans to lower rising health care costs and broaden health insurance coverage for Americans, but their visions would take health care in two different directions.
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Yesterday was Health Care Day in North Carolina&#39;s race for the US Senate, as Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Richard Burr rolled out competing prescriptions to treat the nation&#39;s health-care system.
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US presidential hopefuls from both sides of the political divide are dishing out their plans for fighting obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions and is putting enormous strain on the health care system.
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Recent insurance-cost hikes spotlight the deep problems with how the US pays for health care. Both presidential candidates need to be paying closer attention.