By Noam N. Levey, Kff Health News
How many Americans who voted for Donald Trump hopes that Jason Rouse hopes that President's return will mean lower prices for gas, food and other essential foundations.
But Rouse looks into the federal government for relief from a certain pain point: high health costs. “The prices are just ridiculous,” said Rouse, 53, a retired firefighter and paramedic in Michigan, who voted 3 times for Trump. “I would like to see a lower cap on what I have to pay out of my own pocket.”
The regulation of state regulation of health prices was formerly heresy for many Republicans. The GOP leaders strongly rejected the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which included the federal government's costs for the prices of the patients. Recently, the party fought against laws signed by the previous President Joe Biden to limit prescription medication prices.
But when Trump begins his second term, most of the voters who’ve sent him back to the White House greet more robust measures from the federal government to contain a health system that many Americans perceive uncontrolled, as surveys show.
“This idea that the government should simply keep its hands away, even if things are difficult for humans, has lost its shine” Public settings About government and health care.
“We hike all over the country with a series of old, outdated framework conditions about what ordinary Democrats and ordinary Republicans like,” he said.
The Republican voters are emphasizing the federal borders of the costs accused by pharmaceutical corporations and hospitals, limits the medical bills of patients and restrictions on how health service providers can pursue people on account of medical debt.
Even Medicaid, the state insurance program, which republican congress manager dramatically perform, is inexpensive From many GOP voters like Ashley Williamson.
Williamson, 37, mother of 5 years in Eastern Tene nesse, who voted for Trump, said that Medicaid had provided critical support when her mother-in-law had take care of home care. “We couldn't take care of them,” said Williamson. “It occurred. It was certain that she implemented herself.”
Williamson, whose circle of relatives is reported on her husband's employer, said that she would very much care for large cuts in Medicaid Finance, which could endanger the reporting for needy Americans.
For years, republican ideas for health care have been reflected in broad skepticism for the federal government and fears that the federal government would threaten patients access to doctors or life -saving drugs.
“The discussions 10 to 15 years ago were around the election,” said Christine Matthews, a Republican storm that worked for varied GOP politicians, including the previous governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan. “Free market, not to have the state border or to take over your health care.”
Matthews and the opposite encoder manager Mike Perry recently convened and paid for several focus groups with Trump voters, including Rouse and Williamson, who watched KFF Health News.
Skepticism towards the federal government lingered among the many ranked Republicans. And ideas akin to switching all Americans right into a single state health plan that resembles “Medicare for everyone” are still non -starters for a lot of GOP voters.
But how tens of million Americans are driven in debt After medical bills that they can’t understand or cannot afford, many rate their tendency to look totally free markets as the federal government, said Bob Ward, whose company Fabrizio Ward asked for Trump's 2024 campaign.
“I think most people look at this and say that the market is broken, and that's why they are ready to enter someone, anyone,” he said. “The deck is stacked against people.”
In A Recent national surveyFabrizio Ward and Hart Research, who has asked for democratic candidates for a long time, showed that Trump voters were more liable for health insurers, pharmaceutical corporations and hospital systems than the federal government for top health costs.
Sarah Bognaski, 31, an administrative assistant within the state of New York, is one in all the various Trump voters who say that they profit from the healthcare industry. “I don't think there is a reason why a large part of the costs should be as high as they are,” said Bognaski. “I think it's only out of pure greed.”
High health costs have affected Bognaski, which was diagnosed 4 years ago with type -1 -diabetes, an illness that is dependent upon insulin. She said she was able to enter the federal government and limit what patients pay for medicinal products. “I would like to see more regulation,” she said.
Charles Milliken, a retired automobile mechanic in West Virginia, who said that he supported Trump since the country “does not need a businessman, no politician”, expects the brand new president go further.
“I think he will set an upper limit for which insurance companies that can calculate doctors, which hospitals can calculate,” said Milliken, 51, who recently had a heart attack, which led him with greater than 6,000 US dollars in medical debts.
Three quarters of the Trump voters control the state borders, which may reap the benefits of hospitals, as Ward's surveys have found.
And about half of the Trump voters in a single Newer KFF Opinion poll The recent administration should set a priorities to expand the variety of medicines, the worth of which is set by negotiations between the Federal Medicare program and the pharmaceutical company.
Perry, who has convened dozens of focus groups with the voters about health care in recent times, said that the support for the federal government's price limit was all of the more remarkable, because the regulation of medical prices isn’t at the highest of the agenda of most politicians. “It seems to be like a floor,” he said. “You have come to this decision yourself, and not all political decision -makers who lead them there that something has to be done.”
Other types of state regulation, akin to B. Borders for medical debt collections are much more popular.
About 8 out of 10 Republicans supported an upper limit of two,300 US 2023 survey by Perry's ballot. Perryundem. And 9 out of 10 favored an upper limit for rates of interest that were calculated for medical debts.
“This is what I would consider from a political perspective as a no-brainer,” said Ward.
However, the political GOP leaders in Washington have historically showed little interest in state limits for the payment of medical care. And when Trump and his allies begin within the congress with the design of their health agenda, many Republican leaders are more all in favour of the reduction of the federal government than to expand their protection.
“There is often a massive separation,” said Ward, “between what happens in the Caucuses on the Capitol Hill and what happens to family tables all over America.”
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