Poll after poll shows that cost is the number one issue in health care for American voters, but to a large extent, both parties are still mired in partisan battles over other aspects of Obamacare
The Obamacare wars have ignored what really drives American anxiety about health care: Medical costs are decimating family budgets and turning the U.S. health system into a runaway $3.7 trillion behemoth.
Neither approach gets at the underlying problem — reducing costs for both ordinary people and the health care burden on the overall U.S. economy. And the health care spending conversation itself gets muddled. People’s actual health care bills aren’t always top of mind in Washington.
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