A look at Harris' and Trump's positions on healthcare policy
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have less than a week until election day. |
| 0:03.0 | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final case to voters, |
| 0:07.0 | laying out starkly different visions on a number of key issues. |
| 0:10.0 | That includes health care. |
| 0:12.0 | Our White House correspondent, |
| 0:13.0 | Laura Broon Lopez, has been covering this |
| 0:15.0 | as part of our ongoing deep dive into the |
| 0:18.0 | candidates' promises and policies this election. |
| 0:20.0 | Good to see you, Laura. |
| 0:21.0 | Good to be here. |
| 0:22.0 | So you reported recently about the candidate's approach on abortion access and reproductive rights. |
| 0:26.7 | There's a lot more to talk about broader with health care policy. |
| 0:29.6 | So let's start with Vice President Harris. |
| 0:31.9 | What are her key plans on health care? |
| 0:34.4 | Some of Harris's big health care policy proposals |
| 0:36.9 | are to build on the inflation reduction act, |
| 0:39.6 | cancel more medical debt, |
| 0:41.3 | renew the Affordable Care Act subsidies that are expiring in 2025, |
| 0:45.3 | and expand access to birth control pills. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, I'm know, when it comes to the Inflation Reduction Act, she wants to expand that $35 cap on insulin that she in Biden passed for Medicare |
| 0:56.3 | recipient. She wants to expand that to all Americans. She also wants to cap every |
| 1:00.1 | American's prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year. |
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