Election

On December 13th President Obama signed legislation known as the 21st Century Cures Act into law. This bipartisan effort, a rarity in today’s administration, includes provisions expanding funding for medical research (notably Vice President Biden’s cancer moonshot research) and combatting the prescription and opioid drug crisis.

The campaign promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act is looming as January approaches, and monumental changes to Medicare may be on the horizon as well. Medicare is a government run health care system relied on by those 65 or older, and the disabled.

After one of the most divisive presidential contests in our nation’s history, and an unprecedented shift in policy promised by our new leaders, Americans are faced with an uncomfortable uncertainty lying ahead.