2008 Presidential candidates

The goal of the American Medical Association is to help doctors help patients by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health issues. Through the AMA's Patients' Action Network, we also strive to engage non-physicians in efforts to advocate for meaningful health care reforms, lower health insurance costs, and more access to affordable, quality health care.

Each year the AMA sets an Advocacy Agenda that identifies the most important issues facing physicians, patients, and the US health care system as a whole.  Currently, the AMA is aggressively involved in advocacy efforts related to expanding coverage for the uninsured and increasing access to care, reforming the Medicare physician payment system, reforming the medical liability system, improving public health, and others.

Americans identify health care as one of the most important issues in the 2008 presidential election, and the AMA is pleased to see so many of the declared presidential candidates making health care a top priority. Listed below are the key advocacy priorities of the AMA, along with links to the Web sites of each declared candidate.  We invite you to review the key advocacy priorities of the AMA, and to keep these issues in mind when evaluating the proposals and platforms of the presidential candidates.

AMA National Health Care Policy Agenda

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Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's interactive online tool to create a side-by-side comparison of 2008 Presidential Candidates.