Larry Levitt
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first 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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And then she's also talked about extending permanently enhanced premium subsidies that were enacted in the Affordable Care Act under the Biden-Harris administration.
And this is going to be a big health care fight next year, no matter who gets elected, because those subsidies expire at the end of 2025 and people would face big premium increases if the subsidies do expire.
Both Harris and Trump have criticized the drug industry for high prices.
How that translates into actual policies and whether there'd be agreement there is still unclear, but they've been vocal critics of the drug industry.
So one has to do with coverage of contraception.
Trump succeeded, in fact, in weakening protections under the Affordable Care Act, requiring employers to provide coverage at no cost to patients for contraception.
And he created a pretty big loophole, allowing employers to be exempt from that requirement if they had a moral obligation.
When it comes to abortion, Kamala Harris has said she wants to codify into federal law Roe v. Wade.
She'll certainly need Democratic votes in Congress to do that and potentially eliminating the filibuster.
It's interesting, if you look at, for example, abortion...
The number of abortions has in fact grown nationally since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
And that's likely largely due to the fact that medication abortion has become much more available and accessible and in fact lower cost, allowing women to either get it through the mail or travel.
Contraception, I mean, the Affordable Care Act
required a whole range of preventive services be required by employers and insurers at no cost to patients.
So that's wellness visits, it's flu shots, it's contraception as well.
And that was one area where Trump tried to weaken that requirement.
There's also a legal challenge now making its way through the courts to overturn that requirement to provide preventive services under the Affordable Care Act.
Also for low-income women, I mean, the Title X, which is the federal program for family planning, provides a lot of help for low-income women, even those without insurance, to access contraception.
And the restrictions that the Trump administration had imposed made those less accessible in many cases.
How would that work?
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