10 Health Issues the Candidates Should Be Debating

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10 Health Issues the Candidates Should Be Debating
With costs crippling so many Americans, it's time to double down on the real challenges

by Ramin Oskoui, MD | Updated 10 Oct 2016 at 7:49 PM   

The second presidential debate was frustrating to me as a voter and physician. There was so little time spent on health care.

Medicare and Medicaid are driving our budget insolvency. Both candidates have enumerated in other venues and on their websites their “solutions” to the failing Affordable Care Act. Interested voters should go to the candidates’ websites to educate themselves.
 

There was also the obvious bias of the PolitiFact website. Run by a Tampa Bay newspaper that has endorsed Clinton, the "fact checkers" were flat-out wrong on several counts.

http://www.lifezette.com/healthzette/10-health-issues-candidates-should-discuss/

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Here are 10 real health care issues that affect Americans every day — and are worth spending time on between now and the election:

1.) Rising prescription costs

2.) Prescription opioid addiction

3.) Medicare insolvency

4.) Crisis in veterans' care

5.) Costs and privacy problems with electronic health records (EHR)

6.) Rising costs to patients and businesses for Affordable Care Act plans

7.) Medicaid costs rising with attendant poor quality

8.) Lack of adult primary care providers

9.) Tort reform to minimize defensive medicine — that's the practice of physicians ordering tests and procedures principally to reduce perceived threats of medical malpractice liability

10.) Crippling cost of medical education