MedPage Today December 19, 2025
Uptick follows a year of cuts to Medicaid and the ACA
Julia Dvorak is worried her 83-year-old mother’s trips to the emergency department for seizures are depleting her retirement savings and will soon force her to go on Medicaid.
At the same time, Dvorak, who’s 56 and suffers from a chronic knee condition that keeps her on state and federal assistance, expects her own health costs to go up next year.
It’s the kind of financial squeeze that has made healthcare a growing concern for Americans, according to a new AP-NORC poll that asked people to share their top priorities for the government to address in 2026.
The uptick on healthcare was much sharper than on other commonly mentioned issues....
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