805 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Health Insurance, Medicare/Medicaid, and Drug Pricing
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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What will the Presidential election mean for health care? A look at the candidates' priorities and track records for the future of the Affordable Care Act and health care coverage and cost. Please note that the opinions expressed in this episode belong solely to those interviewed. As a nonprofit entity, the Johns Hopkins University cannot take a position for or against any candidate running for elected office. Information is being provided solely for academic or educational purposes and is not an endorsement of any individual candidate.
Guest:
Gerard Anderson, PhD, is an expert in health policy and a professor in Health Policy and Management and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Host:
Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:23.6 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.6 | Today in our election series, what the 24 U.S. presidential election could mean for health policy, |
| 0:40.3 | from drug pricing to preexisting conditions to the successful expansion of Medicaid. |
| 0:45.7 | Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Jerry Anderson, a health care expert at the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:49.9 | Bloomberg School of Public Health, about where each campaign stands on the issues. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's listen. |
| 0:56.6 | Jerry Anderson, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:59.2 | It's a pleasure to be back talking to you again. |
| 1:03.1 | So I want to talk about health policy and the upcoming election in the United States. |
| 1:14.7 | In previous years, we have heard a lot about health care policy, and it has been sort of one of the most popular topics that the candidates |
| 1:20.5 | talk about. And so I'm wondering why we're not hearing as much about it in 2024. |
| 1:26.6 | So you're correct. |
| 1:27.9 | It is not the topic, whereas in the past it has been the topic. |
| 1:32.9 | So, you know, if we'd have gone back and we were talking about Obama and that election, |
| 1:38.9 | we were talking about expanded coverage and the Affordable Care Act and everybody was talking |
| 1:43.9 | about the fact that we had so |
| 1:45.4 | many uninsured Americans. It's not that we don't have uninsured Americans still, but we have |
| 1:52.1 | fewer of them. And they are in certain categories which have gotten less attention. |
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