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Kaiser Daily Health Policy Repor Highlights Recent Developments In Presidential Campaign Related To Health Care

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Article Date: 05 Nov 2007 - 11:00 PDT

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Summaries of several recent developments in the presidential campaign related to health care appear below.

Divided We Fail Success
Leaders of the groups involved with Divided We Fail, a campaign that seeks to focus the 2008 presidential election on health care and financial security issues, on Thursday said that the effort has prompted candidates from both parties to address their concerns, CongressDaily reports.

AARP CEO Bill Novelli said that most candidates have announced health care proposals and that the campaign will continue through the general election to ensure "what we've got is a presidential winner who is committed to health care reform and retirement security."

Todd Stottlemyer -- president of the National Federation of Independent Business, which joined the campaign this week -- said, "Small-business owners, their employees and dependents make up the largest segment of the uninsured population, and we simply can't say that health care is our top priority and be content with the stalemate over reform."

Other groups involved with the campaign include the Service Employees International Union and the Business Roundtable (CongressDaily, 11/1).

Opinion Pieces Address Giuliani Ad
Two opinion pieces on Friday addressed a radio ad released by presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) in which he promotes his health care proposal and discusses his experience with prostate cancer. In the ad, which will begin to air on Tuesday in New Hampshire, Giuliani says, "I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States: 82%," adding, "My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: only 44% under socialized medicine." The Commonwealth Fund on Tuesday in a statement questioned the accuracy of the five-year survival rate for prostate cancer in Britain cited in the ad (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 10/31). Summaries of the opinion pieces appear below.

Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation© 2005 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.




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