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Consumer Confidential: We all want lower drug prices. Why is that so hard to accomplish?

More than a third of Americans say healthcare is the single most important issue going into November's election.

According to Gallup, 35% of U.S. adults say healthcare is extremely important to winning their vote - and that's based on a survey taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic causing about 150,000 deaths and turning everyone's life upside-down.

Yet Democrats and Republicans continue to struggle, as has been the case for decades, for solutions to this country's shamefully, pathetically, inexcusably dysfunctional healthcare system, which prioritizes corporate profits ahead of patients' well-being.

Last week, President Trump signed a handful of executive orders that he said

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