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Who Decides What in Your Health Care: The 2026 Midterm Vote
The first of four pieces before Election Day, November 3.
Most of what will happen to your health in the next four years will be decided by people on the ballot, or by people they appoint. This is the map: five terms defined plainly (uninsured, Medicaid expansion, medical board, scope of practice, billing code set); the federal layer (Congress, the President and the agencies he appoints: CMS, FDA, NIH); the state layer (governor, legislature, medical board, insurance commissioner, attorney general); what cities actually run; and the official count of what is on the ballot: 36 governors, 35…
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