Leading Presidential Candidates Out of Step on Health Care
by Jacob Werblow

"Do you support national (single-payer) health care insurance?"

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US General Public on Health Care US Physicians on Health Care

Three Leading US Presidential Candidates on Health Care


Sources:

U.S. General Public: An AP-Yahoo! News survey of more than 1,800 people conducted Dec.14-20, 2007, by Knowledge Networks.

U.S. Physicians: "Support for National Health Insurance among American Physicians: Five Years Later." A survey of over 2,000 physicians, by A. E. Carroll and R. T. Ackermann, Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2008.

U.S. Presidential Candidates: *Answer inferred from each candidate's official website.  None publically support national (single payer) health insurance.  See:
hillaryclinton.com
barackobama.com
johnmccain.com 

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Jacob Werblow was a teacher in the public schools of Los Angeles and San Francisco, before moving to Oregon to complete his doctoral degree.  He recently relocated to Boston, MA, where he is involved in school reform.  Contact: <jwerblow@uoregon.edu>.
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