Nevada Caucuses Might Consider Health Care As A Deciding Factor

All presidential candidates have focused on health care as a pivotal point of the presidential campaign. With due reason, this is something at the top of voter minds right now. On Saturday, how well candidates address the health care crisis could reflect on their votes.

There is an extremely high number of uninsured residents in Nevada in addition to few physicians and low Medicaid reimbursements. In a recent poll of voter who are likely to vote Democratic, 20% selected health care as the single most important issue behind candidate selection.

Senator Barack Obama said that his negotiations on health care proposals would be televised live unlike Senator Hillary Clinton who negotiated in private which led to a failure of her health care reform efforts.

Meanwhile almost all candidates have approached health care as an issue of the governmental domain rather than the individual domain. Individual contribution to cost reduction should also be discussed. According to James o’Neill, Director, University of Delaware, perhaps the real solution to catastrophic health care costs was with the people.

He says that bold employers, employees and health practitioners were needed and preventive medication needed to be given due importance.