HealthDecision ’08: Obama & McCain on Health Care

Launch of HealthDecision ‘08: Obama & McCain on Health Care

Welcome to HealthDecision ‘08 : Obama & McCain on Health Care 

HealthDecision ’08 by HealthCare.com is an initiative to inform, educate and deploy the power of the web to gather public opinion on the health care proposals put forth by Barack Obama and John McCain. Our goal is to start thoughtful, rationale debate over the health care issues in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and promote wide-scale participation. 

HealthDecision ’08 provides a side-by-side comparison of Obama’s and McCain’s healthcare positions and proposals, along with interactive voting tools that enable users to vote for their preferred health care plan and offer their own comments after weighing through the issues. Voting results are available real-time, along with other interactive tools such as polling and questionnaires.  We intend for this to be an objective source of information and comparison between the health care platforms proposed by both Senators Obama and McCain.

Candidates in their stump speeches make many declaratory statements such as:

• “We need better health care”
• “We need more affordable health care”
• “We need better access to care” 

These are of course difficult-to-contest views, and the candidates oftentimes leave it at that.  We believe that the policy decisions of the respective candidates matter.  “Reforming” America’s health care system requires difficult choices.  These choices will affect you and the manner that you provide care.  We’re making HealthDecision ’08 into a public awareness campaign for the sake of educated and thoughtful dialogue.

Welcome.

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