Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

Today, US healthcare. It's crying out for reform. So why isn't it the central campaign theme?

Right now, I think a lot of Americans would like to have some kind of federal leadership on the pandemic.

Yes, the president doesn't have a specific plan. His opponent wants just

measured change. It's all quite low key on health before the pandemic election. I mean, when you look

at Vice President Biden's plan, it's basically more of the same. I think change on health care

in the United States is more likely to come on an evolutionary basis rather than on a

revolutionary basis.

Explaining the US healthcare debate, that's Business Daily from the BBC.

Now, you may remember, we ran a clip of this woman.

A couple of months back, she's called Susan.

She was based in New York, and she's recently lost her job as a bartender due to the pandemic.

This meant she'd lost her health insurance too.

I had cancer last year, and I was just right as the pandemic set in was when all of my one-year checkups were due to happen. And so

that was a big concern. After my surgery, I was told that most likely I will have a recurrence

of the cancer. And the biggest part of making sure that I do okay is being vigilant with screening and watching things.

And so not only do I lose my job, I'm getting calls from the hospital saying, well, we're going to have to push these appointments.

That was a scary part of it as well.

Have you had any of those screenings? Have you had any of those screenings?

Have you had any of those checkups to check on your cancer to see if it's okay?

No.

No, I haven't been able to do that.

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