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A look at Harris' and Trump's positions on health care policy

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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With less than a week until election day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final case to voters, laying out starkly different visions on a number of key issues. White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López takes a deep dive into the candidates' positions on health care. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We have less than a week until Election Day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final case to voters, laying out starkly different visions on a number of key issues.

0:10.6

That includes health care.

0:12.4

Our White House correspondent Laura Broan-Lopez has been covering this as part of our ongoing deep dive into the candidates' promises and policies this election.

0:20.5

Good to see you, Laura.

0:21.3

Good to be here. So you reported recently about the candidate's approach on abortion access and

0:25.8

reproductive rights. There's a lot more to talk about broader with health care policy. So let's

0:29.9

start with Vice President Harris. What are her key plans on health care? Some of Harris's big

0:35.5

health care policy proposals are to build on the

0:38.4

Inflation Reduction Act, cancel more medical debt, renew the Affordable Care Act subsidies

0:43.1

that are expiring in 2025, and expand access to birth control pills. Now, Omna, when it comes

0:48.8

to the Inflation Reduction Act, she wants to expand that $35 cap on insulin that she and Biden passed for Medicare

0:56.3

recipient. She wants to expand that to all Americans. She also wants to cap every American's

1:01.2

prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year. Currently, it only applies to Medicare recipients.

1:06.5

And recently, Harris proposed that there should be an at-home care benefit covered by Medicare.

1:14.5

Currently, if you need home care and you don't have some money to hire someone,

1:20.7

you and your family need to deplete your savings to qualify for help.

1:26.1

That's just not right.

1:28.3

So we're going to change the approach and allow Medicare to cover the cost of home care

1:38.3

so seniors can get the help and care they need in their own homes.

1:45.0

That home care benefit, Omna, would also cover people with disabilities that are on Medicare

1:50.0

and policy experts that we talked to said that that could end up covering millions of seniors.

1:55.0

So those are the plans we've heard from Vice President Harris.

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