Nearly 80 percent of registered voters in the United States say that healthcare is either an extremely or very important issue, according to a recent Gallop poll. On today’s episode of the Gist Healthcare podcast, we take a look at some of the healthcare issues that have become platforms for the presidential tickets, as well as how some down ballot races are approaching healthcare policy. Dan Diamond, national healthcare reporter for the Washington Post, joins us to talk healthcare policy and politics.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.