Many of the Democrats running for president are championing bold ways to ensure that all Americans have health care coverage, such as Medicare-for-All. But many voters are focused instead on simply lowering their out-of-pocket health care costs, according to pollsters, policy analysts, and political strategists.
Experts quoted in a June 21, 2019 Washington Post article said that, in public opinion surveys and interviews, people cite the high cost of insurance deductibles, prescription drug costs, and other medical charges as their top concern when it comes to health care.
Democratic candidates are not recognizing that “the debate is not going to be 2008 or ’16 over again. It’s going to be about the price of insulin, hospital charges and insurance premiums, with ‘What are you going to do about them for me?’” said Robert Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Read the Washington Post article: Voters have big health-care worries, but not the ones Democrats are talking about
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What the public thinks about high health care costs (Harvard Chan School news)