Can they find common ground in health care reform?

Seattle, WA.  June 18, 2008.  CodeBlueNow!, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based in Seattle, issues a Health Care Challenge to the McCain and Obama campaigns. CodeBlueNow!'s grassroots polling reveals broad agreement on important issues of health care reform. CodeBlueNow! challenges both candidates to create a bi-partisan platform for reform based upon what a majority of Americans want, by adopting CodeBlueNow!’s Declaration for the Health of America.  http://www.codebluenow.org/Declaration%20with%20statistics%20FINAL.pdf

Kathleen O'Connor, Founder and CEO of CodeBlueNow! states: "The public is tired of negative campaigns and attacks.  They seek a vision for a positive future. With more consensus among the public than we realized, we have asked the candidates not to fight each other on health care but rather to work to find elements they can both support. After the election they will need each other’s support to move toward successful reform.” 

Between now and the November election, CodeBlueNow! will survey the candidates on their proposals, report their responses to the press and the public, and launch a Voters' Health Care Campaign to hold the Administration and Congress accountable to the public on health care issues.

About CodeBlueNow!
CodeBlueNow! is a nonpartisan, national grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to giving the public a voice in shaping a new health care system.  The Seattle based organization conducts research, forges partnerships, builds consensus and creates a positive vision.  CodeBlueNow! formed in October 2003 from ideas that emerged in a national contest to Build an American Health System and is actively working to build consensus on key principles and core elements for a new system.  www.codebluenow.org