The rhetoric was especially prevalent on the campaign trail ahead of the 2018 midterm, as voters cited healthcare as their top concern. Republican politicians, including the president, have voiced support for protecting people with preexisting conditions. "It's between a party that is focused on indeed allowing everyone to have access to affordable healthcare and a party that wants to end preexisting condition protections and repeal the ACA, and I think that is a major contrast that is going to be at the heart of the 2020 election." "I think it's important to remember that the choice the country has to make today is not a choice between Medicare-for-All and some other form of universal coverage," he says. The starkest contrast between those two options centers on preexisting conditions, he says. Slavitt says the Democratic candidates campaigning for the White House in 2020 need to differentiate themselves from the Trump administration's approach to healthcare policy. "But I'm going to say that I don't believe the administration is doing nearly enough to grasp the challenge that most Americans face when affording their healthcare." His Advice for Presidential Hopefuls "All steps are helpful because there's no one silver bullet," he says.
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