Government
Health issues not big election issue
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 14, 2005
Health care was a second-tier issue in the 2004 election, according to a review of pre-election and election day polls. The topic fell behind such subjects as moral values, the economy, terrorism and the war in Iraq, according to the study published link by Health Affairs.
"The candidates' positions on health care issues had relatively little effect on voting behavior either because the issues were not seen as salient enough or because the candidates' positions were not articulated well enough," said Robert Blendon, ScD, a Harvard University health policy professor and one of the study's authors.
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