Health care hot election topic for voters

LYNN – They hold opposing views on their presidential candidate preferences, but Shon Wilkie and Jacqueline Glass list health care as their top issue in this year’s national elections.”We need change, absolutely. I don’t want to sit aro-und waiting to see if I’m going to get medications and get my diabetes checked,” said Glass.She welcomed Rep-ublican Mitt Romney’s bid for president but said her support has since waned.”He’s had good ideas but no follow through.”Hillary Clinton is Wilkie’s choice for president with fellow Democrat John Edwards also at the top of his list.Massachusetts voters must wait until Feb. 5 to weigh in on their presidential preferences. Several of the candidates they support may be listed on the ballot that day but out of the race thanks to poor New Hampshire showings and empty campaign treasuries.Marya Wolff and Vincent Williams offered cautious views about the end result of months of primaries followed by party conventions and an election.”The bottom line is that whoever gets the privilege to be president must look out for the country and the people. If they look out for themselves, we’ll know it, and if they look out for the country we will know it too,” said Vincent Williams.Like Scott Springer, Wolff said the candidate elected in November must find a way to bridge the gap between health care affordability and accessibility.”We have some of the best facilities but we can’t access them,” Wolff said.Health care is Springer’s top concern as he candidate shops.”This is the first election with a legitimate black candidate and a legitimate woman running.”Like Glass, Charles Self wants to see changes in the political landscape. He thinks Barack Obama can set them in motion.”He is new with fresh ideas and he hasn’t lied to me forever like everyone else,” Self said.