Healthcare affordability, vaccine policy, and measles resurgence

Healthcare affordability, Medicaid funding, coverage losses, rural access, and vaccine policy are becoming more prominent midterm issues. Measles outbreaks, deaths, declining vaccination coverage, and the risk of losing U.S. measles-elimination status intensify conflict between federal and state health authorities, while HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s policies and disputes over CDC data remain contested. California vaccine-exemption policy is also entering federal campaign attacks.