Health Care Costs Stoke Midterm Battleground Races

“The willingness to confront powerful health care interests is becoming a litmus test for candidates in congressional battleground races with six weeks to go before the midterm elections,” Axios reports.

“Forget the old Affordable Care Act wars. Anxiety over health care costs is driving a new brand of populism, as Republicans and Democrats try to outdo each other with tough messages about taking on drug companies, insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and other industries.”