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

The two presidential candidates agree that Americans are paying too much for drugs.
Medicare, Chronic Disease, and Drug Prices: Where Trump and Harris Stand on Health Policy
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Health care access and affordability seem to have received limited attention during the 2024 presidential campaigns, despite the industry accounting for more than 17 percent of the United States’ GDP.

“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 an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Marina Zhang
Marina Zhang
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Marina Zhang is a health writer for The Epoch Times, based in New York. She mainly covers stories on COVID-19 and the healthcare system and has a bachelors in biomedicine from The University of Melbourne. Contact her at [email protected].