Perspective Roundtable: Critical Health Care Challenges for the Next U.S. President

NEJM October 16, 2024
Robert J. Blendon, David Blumenthal, Sherry Glied, Benjamin D. Sommers, Meredith B. Rosenthal, J. Michael McWilliams, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Jose F. Figueroa, Ruqaiijah Yearby, Marcella Alsan, Jane J. Kim, Eric J. Rubin

Public opinion polls indicate that reproductive health care is a central issue in the 2024 U.S. elections, with other public health and health care issues figuring less prominently among voters’ priorities. Yet the next U.S. president, as well as Congress and state governments, will have to address some major challenges to Americans’ health and health care. On September 27, 2024, the Journal and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted a symposium exploring three critical topics: access to health care, affordability of care, and health and health care equity.

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