Obama enjoys Health Care Executives Support!

In the campaigns leading up to the final election day, both Barack Obama and John McCain are giving due importance to “healthcare reforms”. With fast rising health care costs, this has become an issue not just for them but for those running the healthcare system as well. With the elections inching closer, ABL (Adaptive Business Leaders Organization) carried out a survey amongst its California-based Healthcare members, most of whom are health industry leaders. The survey questioned them about some of the glaring issues of the day being faced by the presidential nominees, federal and state legislators and the voters.

The survey covered a wide span of top-level executives who run insurance companies, hospitals, medical groups, healthcare information and medical technology, government agencies, biotech, home health and professional healthcare service firms. Mimi Grant, the ABL President said that with the projected spending on healthcare for 2009 deemed at $2.5 trillion which is 16% of the GDP, the task before the candidates is to effectively ‘fix’ this problem. Their decisions shall influence voters in their roles as patients, tax-payers as well as employees. 

 The ABL Healthcare poll revealed that in response to the question “Who do you believe would be the better President of the U.S., as far as the healthcare industry is concerned?” Obama won the round with a 13 point edge over McCain with 56.5% opting to vote ‘for’ Obama.

 In the scramble to the White House, health care reform definitely seems the key factor that shall influence voters when it comes to who they want as their President.