A doctor examines a patient at the UCSF Women's Health Center June 21, 2006 in San Francisco, Calif. Health care is one of the major issues of the 2008 presidential election. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
President, U.S. Senate, Congress, and the Minnesota House of Representatives are the major races in the campaign of 2008. This is the first presidential election without an incumbent or sitting vice president involved since 1952.
The presidential candidates' plans for health care
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In the first of a series of programs from the Commonwealth Club of California featuring top advisors to the presidential candidates, E. Richard Brown, top advisor to Sen. Barack Obama, and Daniel Kessler, top advisor to Sen. John McCain, discuss the candidates' policy positions on health care.
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