Excerpt: The first brief provides key facts on the nation's uninsured population, why people are uninsured and why being uninsured is a problem. The brief then presents broad policy options for covering the uninsured population and offers some questions to help evaluate the proposals by presidential candidates Senators McCain and Obama. (A detailed side-by-side, http://www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm, of the candidates' proposals on health reform, the Foundation's polling, http://www.health08.org/polls.cfm, on the topic, and video clips, http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/h08/soundbites/healthreform, of the candidates discussing health reform are available online.)