With fewer than 100 days until the first primaries, the leading candidates have received ample airtime to address the important issues our nation faces. But even though health care accounts for around 18 percent of our nation’s GDP and consumes close to half of the total tax revenue collected by the federal government, their silence on providing solutions to the most pressing health care challenges our nation faces continues with few exceptions.
Politico concluded the latest Republican debate contained “very little on Obamacare, virtually nothing on Medicare and Medicaid and no mention of drug prices.” And the same sentiments were expressed by others following the most recent Democratic debate.
Perhaps that’s understandable at this point in the election cycle. As New York Governor Mario Cuomo memorably remarked, candidates campaign in poetry and govern in prose. And the heath care policy choices we have to make are by nature far more prose than poetry.
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