Words: Clinton believes in incremental reforms that will lead to universal health care through insurance premium subsidy, but feels that single-payer health care is unrealistic. She also supports AIDS education and research and advocates expanding eligibility for the SCHIP program (more…)

Words: McCain opposes a mandated universal health care system and mandated insurance coverage and supports tax-free medical savings accounts, tax credits for health insurance, and more community health care centers. He also argues that we must keep our health care (more…)

Words: Obama believes that the federal government should provide health care for everyone. He also feels that we need to increase competition in the insurance and pharmaceutical markets and advocates better funding for AIDS research and prevention. (more…)

Words: Paul argues that managed care hasn’t worked and is too expensive. “We need to get the government out of the way. … We don’t have enough competition. There’s a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. (more…)

Words: Biden supports federal funding and has stated that he will develop a plan for full health care access within six months of taking office, starting with catastrophic insurance and full coverage for children. He advocates cutting costs overall and lowering costs for employers. (more…)

Words: Edwards believes that universal health care can be implemented through a combination of cost containment and a variety of revenue sources. He advocates full funding for AIDS research. “We’re asking everybody to share in the responsibility (more…)

Words: Giuliani advocates a $15,000 tax credit for family health insurance. He opposes “socialized medicine” and feels we should give the poor “health vouchers”. He also advocates a switch from employer-dominated health insurance to individual choices (more…)

Words: Huckabee opposes universal health care and mandated health insurance. He feels that as much focus should be on education and prevention as on treatment and argues that the health market should be driven by the consumer rather than the government. (more…)

Words: Kucinich advocates Enhanced Medicare for all - universal not-for-profit health care rather than the system of co-pays, premiums, and deductibles. “We have a nation of such wealth, yet we have 46 million Americans without any health insurance, (more…)

Words: Richardson advocates more preventive health care without raising taxes and supports giving states the flexibility to run Medicaid programs. He feels our goals should be decreasing the number of uninsured and increasing access to affordable health care. (more…)

Words: Thompson believes that competition and personal responsibility will lower health care costs in a free market. He believes that Medicare’s drug payment policy is flawed and costs billions annually due to error and fraud. “Every American should be able to get health insurance (more…)