On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Avik Roy, a GOP health policy adviser, to talk about how health care has evolved as a Republican issue.
Roy, a co-founder and the chair of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said health care affordability has become a more salient issue for the GOP under President Donald Trump, with more people from working-class backgrounds voting Republican.
Before Trump, he said, the party’s support was more concentrated among those covered by employer-sponsored insurance or Medicare, the public program for those who are 65 or older or have disabilities — voters less likely to be concerned about affording medical care.
An abbreviated version of this interview aired on What the Health? Episode 423: “The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA.”
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