Larry Levitt
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Your Money, Your Vote: Making Healthcare More Affordable · 6 Oct 2024
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It was around short term insurance plans, which don't have to follow the ACA's rules and covering benefits.
people with pre-existing conditions.
Trump had expanded those plans.
Biden reversed that.
Trump had allowed states to impose work requirements on people in Medicaid, and Biden reversed that.
Trump had dramatically cut outreach under the Affordable Care Act by 90 percent, and Biden reversed that.
So many of the early months of the Biden presidency were busy with
undoing what Trump had done previously.
Yes, Vice President Harris has been a leader on some health care issues within the administration.
One is certainly reproductive health.
She is the most vocal and public advocate for abortion rights.
She also has been a leader on issues of medical debt.
The Biden-Harris administration has proposed rules to eliminate medical debt from credit reports, and that's been a priority that
Harris has talked about during the campaign as well.
And then with a closely divided Senate, she has often had to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate.
And one high-profile one was on the Inflation Reduction Act, which gave the government the authority for the first time to negotiate drug prices in Medicare.
Harris has doubled down on some of the policy achievements that the Biden administration has had in health care.
She has talked about expanding, accelerating drug price negotiation in Medicare, applying it to more drugs and applying it faster.
The other things the Inflation Reduction Act did were to cap annual drug costs in Medicare, out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000, and also to cap insulin copays at $35 per month.
She's proposed expanding that to everyone, not just Medicare beneficiaries.
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