Political Positions
Obama has taken positions on many national, political, economic and social issues, either through public comments or his senatorial voting record.
One such position is Obama's stance on health care. Obama has repeatedly said that he wants to see that every American has the option of having affordable health care as good as every U. S. Senator has. He has proposed a major overhaul of the nation’s health care system, aimed at covering the nearly 45 million uninsured Americans, reducing premium costs for everyone else, and breaking what he asserted was “the stranglehold” that the biggest drug and insurance companies have on the health care market.
Read more about this topic: Barack Obama Presidential Primary Campaign, 2008
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