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After Years of Quiet, Democratic Candidates Can’t Stop Talking About Health Care

The following article by Margot Sanger-Katz was posted on the New York Times website August 1, 2018:

Sen. Joe Donnelly, center, with members of the United Mine Workers of America at a campaign event in Boonville, Ind. Credit: Aaron Borton for The New York Times

In June, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri asked voters at a big political dinner to stand up if they had a pre-existing health condition.

She’d been hearing from voters at town hall meetings that they were worried about health care. “I just thought of it frankly at the podium,” she said. “I was just betting this is not that different from my town halls.”

The room was suddenly filled with standing voters. “Even I was stunned just how few people kept their seats,” she said.

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