Health Care for All?

With the 2008 presidential election just around the corner, it's time to review the progress of universal health care. What do competing Democratic and Republican plans really mean? And what's happening with Governor Schwarzenegger's plan for universal health care coverage at the state level? We'll also take a look at San Francisco's pilot program called "Healthy San Francisco," a new safety net for the city's estimated 82,000 uninsured residents.

Barack Obama's Plan for Health Reform

Guest: E. Richard Brown, PhD, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an adviser to Senator Obama's presidential campaign on health care issues.

John McCain's Plan for Health Reform

Guest: John Graham, M.B.A., director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco .

Non-Partisan Analysis of the Obama and McCain Health Plans

Guest: Larry Levitt, vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and editor in chief of Kaisernetwork.org.

• More: Side-by-Side Comparison at Health08.org : A non-partisan interactive comparison of the two candidates' health care proposals. Choose issues that are important to you, and compare the candidates' positions. Health08.org is a project of the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

• Community Health Clinics: The View from the Trenches: Community health clinics can be viewed as ground zero in the battle to improve health care in California. There, doctors and their staffs deal with a variety of health concerns faced by millions of uninsured and underserved people. Health Dialogues spoke with medical professionals from six clinics across the state, to find out who uses their services and what kind of health care those patients need.

Santa Clara Family Health

• A Healthy Kids success story: About seven percent of children in California are uninsured, so some communities now offer locally funded health insurance. The first such program started in Santa Clara County - where one mother says it helped save her daughter's life.

Healthy San Francisco

We look at San Francisco's plan to provide access to health care -- not insurance -- to its uninsured residents.

• A trip to Healthy San Francisco: Health Dialogues goes to the Silver Avenue Family Health Center. The clinic - one of more than a dozen run by the San Francisco Department of Public Health - serves as a medical home to enrollees of the Healthy San Francisco program.

The State of Health Care Reform in California

Guest: Marian Mulkey, M.P.H., M.P.P., senior program officer for the California Healthcare Foundation's Market and Policy Monitor Program, promoting greater transparency and accountability in California's health care system .

Proposition 4 and Parental Notification

Guest: Dolores Meehan, volunteer spokeswoman for Yes on Proposition 4 .