Democratic midterm victories could help reverse Medicaid cuts, reshape health care policy at the state and federal levels.

Democratic midterm victories could reshape health care policy at the state and federal levels.

Key priorities for newly elected Democrats include a legislative push to reverse cuts to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, and to lower insurance premiums and drug prices.

Democrats scored huge margins in Congress and made big gains at the state level. What does it mean for health policy in the final two years of the Trump administration and beyond? The post How Democrats’ Big Win Could Reshape Health Care appeared first on Tradeoffs.

Democrats’ retaking of Congress doesn’t change President Donald Trump’s control of the veto pen — making the new majority’s aspirations to reverse changes to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and other safety net programs an uphill climb.