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5 - Healthcare Executives Choose Clinton as Best Presidential Candidate
for Healthcare According to Beacon Partners’ Poll
Yet on Election Day, these same executives wouldn’t
necessarily vote for her.
According to over 600 healthcare executives who were polled at a national
healthcare conference that just ended in Orlando, Florida, Hillary Clinton
would be the best presidential candidate to most positively impact the
healthcare industry. Yet, when also asked which candidate they’d
vote for on Election Day, Clinton ranked third among the four remaining
candidates.
“We felt it was important to poll this select group of people,
individuals who truly understand the issues and challenges facing the
healthcare industry today, as to which presidential candidate they feel
would have the greatest impact on healthcare,” says Ralph Fargnoli,
president and CEO of Beacon Partners, the company who administered the
“Beacon Partners 2008 Presidential Healthcare Poll” onsite
at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Annual Conference and Exhibition that just ended on February 28th at
the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.
“We find it fascinating that while they think Hillary will have
the greatest impact on healthcare as president, these same individuals
wouldn’t necessarily vote for her.”
Choosing from the current presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton (D),
Barack Obama (D), John McCain (R), or Mike Huckabee (R), healthcare
executives attending HIMSS were asked via an electronic survey the following
four questions:
1. Which candidate do you believe will be the biggest
advocate for healthcare IT adoption?
2. Which candidate do you believe will have the most impact on empowering
providers to deliver the best possible healthcare through the use of
healthcare IT?
3. Which candidate do you believe has the best plan to improve healthcare
quality and reduce healthcare costs?
4. If today were Election Day, which candidate would you vote for?
Beacon Partners 2008 Presidential Healthcare
Poll Results:
Candidate Question 1 Question 2 Question 3
Question 4
Hillary Clinton: 43.2%; 34.2%;
32.1%; 23.8%
Barack Obama: 30.1%; 33.8%; 32.9%;
34.4%
Mike Huckabee: 6.0%; 5.6%; 6.3%; 6.3%
John McCain: 20.7%; 26.4%; 28.7%; 35.6%
To view the results, please visit http://66.77.127.8/Beacon/Results.html
Source: Beacon Partners
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