Issues

The legality and availability of abortion after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health (2022) overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the question to states.

The trade-off between getting promising new drugs to patients quickly and ensuring rigorous evidence of safety and efficacy before approval.

The ACA option allowing states to expand Medicaid to adults earning up to 138% of the federal poverty line, with the federal government paying 90% of the cost.

State laws allowing terminally ill, mentally competent adults to request a physician-prescribed medication to end their own lives, sometimes called physician-assisted dying.

Whether and how to reform Medicare Advantage — the privately-administered Medicare program — addressing concerns about upcoding, marketing practices, prior authorization, and taxpayer cost.

A single-payer national health insurance program that would replace private and most public insurance with one government plan covering all Americans.

How to respond to behavioral-health emergencies — through 988, mobile crisis teams, co-responder models, or traditional police — and how to fund the underlying mental-health system.

Whether insurance plans cover mental health and substance-use disorder care on the same terms as physical health care, as required by the 2008 Mental Health Parity Act.

How the federal government and CDC should be structured to prevent, detect, and respond to future pandemics, drawing lessons from COVID-19.

Whether to allow legal importation of prescription drugs from Canada, Europe, and other regulated markets where prices are typically lower than in the United States.

Whether and how the federal government — through Medicare and otherwise — should negotiate prescription drug prices with manufacturers.

A government-run health insurance plan offered alongside private plans on the ACA marketplace — designed to compete with private insurers and expand coverage.

Laws allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental treatments that have passed initial safety trials but have not received final FDA approval.

How to regulate cigarettes, menthol products, flavored vapes, and other nicotine-delivery devices to reduce harm without driving adults to more dangerous alternatives or black markets.

Government and institutional requirements that individuals receive specified vaccines as a condition of school attendance, employment, or military service.