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Mark McClellan: The health care issue is a huge one for the campaigns as you have already heard. On surveys overall for the U.S. population, it is probably the top domestic policy concern, health care costs, anxiety about keeping coverage, about doing something about the uninsured which people increasingly view as potentially including themselves.
At the same time as it's a big issue, Senator Rudman said Iraq is taking a lot of oxygen and a lot of the energy out of the time that candidates are spending out talking about priority issues in front of the national media and so forth and so that has kept there from being I think as much discussion around this issue and around the key features of it as might be ideal. There are some big philosophical differences obviously between the two parties, not so much within each party right now, and those are coming out, and with this children's health insurance debate that is happening now, I think we will probably have some more opportunities to discuss that a little bit later on in the panel.
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