June 27, 2019
N Engl J Med 2019; 380:2487-2492
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1905710
U.S. healthcare costs — and not merely prescription-drug prices — have risen to the top of the national agenda. More than two thirds (69%) of the U.S. public has said that reducing these costs should be a top priority for President Donald Trump and Congress in 2019, ranking it behind only strengthening the economy (70%) on a list of 18 possible priorities (Pew, 2019) (see table). Given a list of 13 possible health-specific priorities, about 9 in 10 Americans said both prescription-drug prices (92%) and lowering the overall cost of healthcare (88%) were extremely important (Politico–HSPH, December 2018).
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