What Trump and Harris could do to your health care
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
From Medicare to Obamacare, health care has long been a powerful and polarizing issue in the race for president. This year, the issue of reproductive health care is dividing Americans. The high cost of prescription drugs and access to affordable health care are also concerns.
So how exactly does the ticket of former president Donald Trump and JD Vance compare with Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz when it comes to our health? National health reporter Dan Diamond breaks down what we know from the candidates’ current policies and track records.
Read more:
- Vance floats new health plans for chronically ill, reopening ACA debate
- Trump struggles to embrace ‘lousy’ Obamacare, calling again to replace it
- Biden, Harris say seniors will see lower prices for diabetes, heart medications
- Harris and Trump are ready to take on Big Pharma
- How Kamala Harris is tackling medical debt — with Roy Cooper’s help
- Democrats’ ads shift from Trump to abortion and economy with Harris as nominee
Today’s show was produced by Elana Gordon with help from Rennie Svirnovskiy and Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks to Stephen Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Health care has been one of the most divisive issues in American politics for decades. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Dan Diamond, a national health reporter at the post. Having covered several presidential |
| 0:14.8 | elections, he is acutely tuned into the powerful role of health care in |
| 0:19.9 | campaigns, past and present. |
| 0:21.6 | Democrats think health care is one of their strongest issues, if not the strongest issue. |
| 0:27.0 | But this is a health care crisis. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a health care crisis. |
| 0:32.0 | There's reproductive health rights. |
| 0:33.3 | I absolutely support reinstating the protections of Roe v. Wade. |
| 0:37.8 | That has been something that Kamala Harris, Tim Wals have been running on. |
| 0:41.4 | The push for lower drug price costs, and then campaigning on the |
| 0:45.3 | Affordable Care Act. |
| 0:46.4 | The plan has to be to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, not get rid of it. |
| 0:52.1 | The health law has been a rallying cry in recent elections and |
| 0:55.3 | then Republicans still think on some level that criticizing the Affordable Care |
| 0:59.7 | Act is a winning message. Obamacare was lousy health care, always was, it's not very good today. |
| 1:06.6 | Senator JD Dance, the running native Donald Trump, |
| 1:09.7 | has floated a number of health care ideas recently. |
| 1:12.4 | We also want to make the health insurance marketplace function a little bit better. |
| 1:16.4 | For Dan, this tension is very familiar, but it's also revealing. |
| 1:25.0 | Part of it is a feeling of being stuck in Groundhog Day. |
| 1:28.0 | Any conversation about the Affordable Care Act just plays back on themes and fights that happened |
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