The Tuesday, January 5 runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the U.S. Senate are shaping up as a test of how the health care issue works politically for the Democrats.
It's not so much the coronavirus response that that Democratic candidates are emphasizing but the broader issues of health care access, quality, and affordability connected to federal government regulation and subsidies. Covid-19 and the larger health-care issues are related. Some voters have lost their employer-provided health insurance amid the pandemic. Others worry about the risk of unexpected large medical bills related to a Covid-19 hospitalization.
