Healthcare costs are one of the most hotly contested issues in the U.S.

But despite the pandemic, they’ve been somewhat sidelined by the immediacy of the inflation crisis and its impact on rocketing fuel and food prices.

As CGTN’s Owen Fairclough reports, they’re all contributing to a growing national debt pile that’s raising concern among the federal government’s accountants.

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