This article explores the implications of the 2020 election for the future of health policy in the United States. A substantial body of research has shown that policy decisions made by nationally elected officials in recent years more closely reflect the views of their party’s adherents than they do the views of the general voting public as a whole. People who identify with a party are more likely to have voted in a partisan primary election and are often more active in political affairs. The elected officials’ decisions also reflect to some degree the views of each party’s largest financial donors. CONT.
Robert J. Blendon & John M. Benson (Harvard T.H. Chan School), New England Journal of Medicine