There may be some surprises ahead in the presidential campaign, but the race is now officially narrowed down to three candidates.  What is abundantly clear from these three candidates is the inadequacies of their health care reform proposals.  Clinton and Obama may argue with each other over who has the better plan, but neither has real cost containment strategies.  NY Times’ Robert Pear delineated the inadequacies of their plans in Monday (March 3rd) New York Times.  Read the article here. 

CodeBlueNow!’s research from Iowa and Washington had identical findings from two very different red and blue states.  The candidates are clearly not addressing some key issues of concern to the American public.  McCain’s proposal is even more vague. 

We cannot leave the health of our nation to political candidates who follow very rigid party lines of access, cost, quality and coverage. The majority of Americans want everyone covered.  They want this because they understand that not covering everyone costs them money in their current premiums. 

We will have a discussion forum on our website by the end of the month.  We must start thinking now how we can create a Voters’ Health Care Platform that we will give to the candidates, so we can identify what is important to us in health care reform. And then demand they address our needs.   

Please see what our survey shows the public wants and where the candidates are at. We, the People, need to lead this discussion.  

We have more in common than we are led to believe by the pundits and the parties. 

We would also like to acknowledge and thank HealthCareReformNow.org for their thoughtful article on our research findings.  We highly recommend Halvorson’s Health Care Reform Now! book to you. 

He has many thoughtful ideas that we need to examine, explore and discuss. 

Cheers and more later.  Kathleen