189 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Health Care—Preexisting Conditions, Medicaid Expansion, and Drug Pricing
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As part of our election series, Stephanie Desmon talks with Dr. Gerry Anderson, an expert in health policy at Johns Hopkins. They discuss what the election could mean for the coverage of preexisting conditions, Medicaid expansion, and drug pricing. They also talk about a Supreme Court hearing in November that may determine the future of the Affordable Care Act, the similarities and differences between the candidates' views of the ACA, and a fact check on whether insulin really is as cheap as water.
KEYWORDS: chronic disease; state government; health equity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.9 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health |
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| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future |
| 0:47.2 | podcast episodes. Today, as we continue our election series, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Jerry Anderson, a Johns Hopkins expert in health policy. |
| 0:58.1 | They discuss what the election could mean for the coverage of preexisting conditions, Medicaid expansion, and drug pricing. |
| 1:05.7 | Let's listen. |
| 1:07.7 | Jerry Anderson, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:10.4 | It's quite a pleasure. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.6 | Well, I wanted to talk to you today about basically health and the election. |
| 1:17.6 | And so we've talked a lot about COVID in a lot of these episodes, but what I really want to focus on is health policy and sort of what the election could mean. |
| 1:25.6 | And I'd like to start, of course, the most obvious question, |
| 1:29.4 | which is about the Affordable Care Act. Talk to me about what may or may not happen, |
| 1:34.5 | depending on how things go in November. So their Supreme Court is going to hear this case on |
| 1:41.3 | November 10th, and depending on what they decide, which probably, in fact, |
| 1:47.8 | won't be until March or even June of 2021, they typically do not give a decision right away. |
| 1:57.1 | So we will probably not know what's going to happen for an extended period of time. |
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