Health care policy has been a major issue for a long time. It played a big role in Barack Obama’s 2008 election victory, his entire presidency and the 2010 GOP takeover of the House of Representatives. Repealing Obamacare was a Republican priority before and after Donald Trump became president. The debate on “Medicare for All” dominated the 2020 Democratic primaries.
Now, in the middle of the nation’s worst pandemic in 100 years, you would think health care policy would be the object of obsession among politicians and voters. Instead, the issue has gone missing.
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