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The campaign trail is hot as the presidential candidates make their way from state to state, debate to debate, stumping for the almighty vote. The issues are the same but the plans are as varied as the many candidates that are all vying for the title of President of the United States. For people with diabetes, one of the issues of concern is health care – rising costs, research, insurance. Who will be the one to garner your vote? Click on a name to read what a candidate has to say and decide for yourself.

Democrats

Hillary Clinton

“I believe everyone, every man, woman and child, should have quality, affordable health care in America. We should do it.”

Barack Obama

“We now face an opportunity — and an obligation — to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday's health care debates… My plan begins by covering every American.”

Republicans

John McCain

“The biggest problem with the American health care system is that it costs too much, and the way inflationary pressures are actually built into it. Businesses and families pay more and more every year to get what they often consider to be inadequate attention or poor care.”

Missed your chance to see the candidates in action? Here are the remaining debates scheduled before the election:

 September 2008

• 26th- Presidential debate at University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

October 2008

• 2nd- Vice Presidential debate at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
• 7th - Presidential debate at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.
• 15th- Presidential debate at Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.