Washington Examiner July 26, 2023
Both political parties have campaigned on the promise to “fix” healthcare for the last 20 years at least, but no one’s done anything about it.
Employers’ healthcare costs, for example, are expected to climb faster than inflation in 2023 and 2024. As a former employer myself, I know that these added costs for employers will be borne by customers, in the form of higher prices for goods and services, or employees, in the form of slow wage growth.
Voters know it, too. “Reducing healthcare costs” was the No. 2 problem for voters, according to a Pew Research poll conducted in February 2023 . Almost 90% of voters said a candidate’s plan for reducing the cost of healthcare would be important...