US election: what are the candidates’ health-care pledges?

 lancet cover 2Volume 387, Number  10026 
2  April  2016 
WORLD REPORT    Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination have more detailed health-care plans than their Republican counterparts.  Susan Jaffe, The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, reports.

Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee has dominated the 2016 political race, nearly overshadowing some unconventional contenders on the Democratic side.  The result is a political season that has defied the odds makers.

Former US Secretary of State and Senator from New York, Democrat Hillary Clinton may be well on her way to becoming the first woman in US history to win her party’s nomination for president. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, is trailing Clinton in the number of delegates needed to win the nomination. Yet his popular call for “a political revolution” continues to slowly raise his delegate count. [MORE]

 

(Visited 58 times, 1 visits today)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *