Medicare, Chronic Disease, and Drug Prices: Where Trump and Harris Stand on Health Policy

Despite accounting for over 17 percent of the United States’ GDP, health care access and affordability seem to receive limited attention during the 2024 presidential campaigns. “For perhaps the first election season since 2004, health coverage policies have had a relatively low profile,” Sharon Glied, dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, wrote in her opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine. “The two biggest problems in health care: Millions of people can’t afford the care they need, and millions of people don’t have access to care they need. And neither candidate is addressing these two problems in any serious way,” John C. Goodman, health economist and health policy expert, told The Epoch Times....