During the 2008 Presidential campaign now President-Elect Barack Obama announced a comprehensive health care reform proposal and laid out his positions on a number of other key health care issues.

The two documents below summarize these campaign policies and positions. They were prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation with the assistance of Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., and are based on information compiled from Obama's campaign Web site, speeches, campaign debates and news reports. They are adapted from the side-by-side comparisons examining the positions of the presidential candidates. 
 
 President–Elect Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Proposal (.pdf)

 President-Elect Barack Obama's Campaign Positions on Health Care (.pdf)