Yesterday I posted Drew Altman's view of the health care issues that are most likely to be affected by the outcome of next Tuesday's presidential (and to a lesser extent congressional) election. Today I am featuring a *small* sampling of the commentary available from reliable sources.
- Larry Levitt is the chief policy guy at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, one of the most reliable sources of data and analysis around. In 2013 he wrote in JAMA that "this may be the first presidential election since 2008 when health reform and the ACA—or repeal of the ACA—are not front and center." Just about everything Levitt discussed in this early-campaign essay continues to ring true.
- CBS News (Oct. 30): Where are the candidates on health care isssues
- Harris has backed away from single-payer health care
- Trump says he has "concepts" of a health care plan
- Harris wants to continue Biden's crackdown on pharmaceutical companies
- Trump says he wants to mandate IVF coverage, but Republicans in Congress aren't so keen
- NPR (Oct. 28): The top three issues in the presidential race
- The future of Medicare’s drug price negotiations
- The Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies
- Continued availability of medication abortion
- NY Times (Oct. 28; paywall): The 2024 Stakes on Health Care
- Insurance: ACA subsidies are due to expire, leaving 3 million without health coverage
- Drug prices: the candidates agree that we pay too much, but not on the role of the president
- Medicare/Medicaid: both agree that benefits shouldn't be cut
- Bottom line: "Kamala Harris has offered policies that would lower out-of-pocket costs for many Americans and preserve or expand health insurance coverage. Donald Trump has been vaguer, and his agenda is a little harder to predict."
- ABC News (Oct. 25): Presidential election puts Affordable Care Act back in the bull's-eye
- Subsidies, risk pools, pre-exisiting condition coverage, Medicaid expansion under the ACA
- And wait, there's more!
