Health and the election

The health policy election.

MUCH IS AT STAKE IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECtion. President Barack Obama’s vision and former Governor Mitt Romney’s vision differ across many domains, but perhaps most starkly in the area of health policy. Fundamentally, the candidates disagree on the role of government as the guarantor of affordable access to health insurance, as evidenced by their plans for private insurance markets, Medica...

Understanding health care in the 2012 election.

The outcome of the 2012 election will have far­ reaching ramifications for the future of U.S. health care. Rarely in a national election have the two major candidates’ views about health care been so diametrically opposed. The views of President Barack Obama and Republican presi­ dential nominee Mitt Romney differ on whether the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be implemented or repealed, ...

The 1988 election: how important was health?

Election 2015: closing the Aboriginal health gap.

CMAJ 2011 election survey: health transfers.

finance minister or health administrator in Canada who isn’t grinning like a Cheshire cat. When the writ dropped for the 2011 federal election, no one expected any of the political parties to spell out their intentions for annual transfer payments for health care made to the provinces after 2014, once the current intergovernmental health accord expires. In fact, conventional wisdom held that it...