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Ondra continues, "The Obama plan, with its emphasis on improving health IT, will also help spine patients receive better care by making it easier for medical professionals to coordinate care."

In conjunction with the Obama interview, SpineUniverse.com also just released results from its September 2008 survey that took a closer look at the politics of back pain. The results show an intriguing cross-section of America and should help voters think through the presidential candidates' health care plans.

Read full results from the SpineUniverse.com survey at http://www.spineuniverse.com/article/american-back-neck-pain-solution-4451.html.

In the survey, 96% of people said that back pain is a serious health concern--serious because it costs the American people time, productivity, and a lot of money. Every year, back and neck pain cost us $90 billion, and in a time of national penny-pinching, it makes sense that reducing back pain would be fiscally responsible.

Like so many proposed programs during this election year, Republicans and Democrats can't quite agree on how to reduce back pain and eventually reduce that $90 billion cost. 24% of Democrats believe that having affordable, quality care that's accessible by all would save our backs. Just 12% of Republicans chose universal health coverage as a viable option for back pain prevention, but 25% of Republicans think that encouraging weight loss would be the most effective way to reduce Americans' back pain.

It looks like even our approach to back pain labels us as red or blue. So when back pain sufferers head into the voting booth on Election Day--and 4 out of every 5 voters will
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