Cindy Banda faces mounting medical bills after battling breast cancer. Despite the single mother's positive outlook, the financial strain combined with the high cost of living is overwhelming.

That’s true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September.

With party control of Congress at stake, registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say they trust Democrats over Republicans to handle healthcare, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from the same month. Those frustrations, combined with broader concerns over rising prices, have sapped support for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

  • undecidedyellow@lemmy.world
    28·
    23 hours ago

    She voted for Trump in 2016, and his first four years seemed steady, so she voted for him again in 2020.

    Yup, COVID was real steady

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      20 hours ago

      That line stood out to me too, letting my know this lady is completely full of shit. No one lived through 2020 and called it “steady”. She voted for other people’s suffering and is trying to claim it was about anything but.