At least a rhetorical exercise: The presidential candidates' health-care advisers speak
Although this may be a purely academic exercise in light of recent events, the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site is chockablock this week with publicly available information related to the two major candidates' health plans.
At a forum Sept. 12, co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health and the New England Journal of Medicine, health advisers to the two major presidential candidates offered their views. Links to video and the transcript are here.
Also available online:
- An examination of the role of campaign contributions and lobbying in U.S. health care.
- Statements from John McCain and Barack Obama on their respective health plans.
- Critical outside examinations of both McCain's and Obama's plans.
There's a lot to chew over, and given recent economic events the temptation is to give up on any sort of health-care reform at all for now. But I suspect whoever wins isn't going to give up, so we might as well get some idea of what the winner will be trying to do starting in January.
