Allowing people to save more money — especially in their younger years, when their ability to save almost certainly eclipses their need for care — will help them prepare for the reality of aging, when their medical expenses will begin to grow.
Rising healthcare costs continue to squeeze household finances.
Washington is divided over how to respond. But new public opinion data suggest that patients agree on an answer.
More than eight in 10 voters say they would react positively to an elected official who believed that “[t]o improve health care, we need to fund patients, not the system,” according to polling from Fund the Patient, a nonprofit organization. That support crosses party lines; similar shares of Democrats, Republicans, and independents feel that way.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Lawmakers Divided on Affordable Healthcare, Patients Aren’t
Sally C. Pipes
Allowing people to save more money — especially in their younger years, when their ability to save almost certainly eclipses their need for care — will help them prepare for the reality of aging, when their medical expenses will begin to grow.
Rising healthcare costs continue to squeeze household finances.
Washington is divided over how to respond. But new public opinion data suggest that patients agree on an answer.
More than eight in 10 voters say they would react positively to an elected official who believed that “[t]o improve health care, we need to fund patients, not the system,” according to polling from Fund the Patient, a nonprofit organization. That support crosses party lines; similar shares of Democrats, Republicans, and independents feel that way.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.