The AAFP continues to work to put health care and place family medicine issues in front of presidential candidates. The AAFP has launched an initiative to help members become informed about and active in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Here you will find helpful and timely materials so that you can bring a family medicine perspective to health policy in the campaigns at state and local campaign events.
As a recent Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found, health care is a top domestic issue in the 2008 election. Thus, the Kaiser Family Foundation has created a new resource - health08.org - to provide analysis of health policy issues, regular public opinion surveys, and news and video coverage from the campaign trail.
2008 Presidential Campaign
Resources
State Governors' Endorsements
-- State governors' endorsements of 2008 U.S. presidential candidates.
PresidentialRX
-- Designed to explain to voters how each of the presidential candidates' proposals on health care will affect them. The site is an initiative of the Health Care Solutions Group, a non-partisan health policy institute affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Federal Advocacy
2008 Presidential Campaign
Joint Principles for Patient-Centered Medical Home (*PDF file)
Care Management Policy (*PDF file)
Legislation Endorsements and Letters to Congress
Statements to Government Agencies and Advisory Panels
(*PDF file. About PDFs)
