In election run up, voters eye health care as top concern
Olivia Sheldon is one of those voters who’s still deciding who to vote for in a hotly contested Senate race. But she knows one issue she cares about a lot: health insurance.
“Health care definitely needs some work,” she says. “I would love to have some reform.”
Ms. Sheldon is an expectant mother who, at age 24, has a job in retail and is studying for a degree in psychology. And for this resident of the mountain town of Harpers Ferry, what’s needed doesn’t fit neatly on either side of a debate that typically pits ideals of government-provided care against reliance on free-market principles.
“I want the government support,” she says, citing the high costs of medical care. “But I want [government] out of the doctor’s office when I’m in for
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