The Blue Wave's Health Care Agenda: What Congress Could Do Next

Health Affairs Publishing's Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad back to the pod to unpack the 2026 midterm election results and their potential implications for health policy. The conversation explores potential Democratic health care priorities, including reversing Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidy restoration, drug pricing initiatives, examining the role of prior authorization in coverage denials, and the prospects for broader coverage expansion at both the federal and state levels.