While the news cycle over the past two weeks has been focused on the family separation policy at the Southern border, immigration is most likely not going to be the issue of focus by next November at the midterm elections. Instead, the defining issue will be healthcare: Voters rank it as their most important policy area, and progressive advocacy groups are preparing to make it a focus of their midterm election campaigning.

Republicans need policy ideas other than their disastrously unpopular Obamacare repeal efforts. A few weeks ago, President Trump signed Right to Try legislation, allowing terminally ill patients the ability to try certain medicines the FDA has not yet approved. While this change is a welcome one, it does not begin to address larger problems in the healthcare system. Healthcare costs and insurance premiums have continued to rise, partially due to healthy people choosing voluntarily to not buy insurance thanks to the individual mandate repeal. Republicans need to have an agenda that makes healthcare more affordable for the average American first and foremost, albeit an agenda that uses free market principles to get to that end.