With full control of the House and Senate, President-elect Trump and his fellow Republicans have the power to assert their will over health care policies.

The GOP is expected to have at least 218 seats in the House of Representatives, maintaining control of the chamber, according to CNN, NBC and ABC. The party has at least 52 seats in the Senate.

Major health care issues are potentially at stake, including subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, Medicaid funding, restructuring of massive federal agencies like the FDA and CDC, access to telehealth, how Medicare pays doctors, reforms to drug intermediaries, price negotiations medicines and China. the growth of biotechnology.

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