KFF immediately launched a brand new side-by-side comparability device of the information and coverage positions of President Biden and former President Trump throughout a spread of key well being coverage points. In a associated “Past the Knowledge” column, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman examines why the election represents a “fork within the highway” on the federal authorities’s function in well being care.
Whereas this isn’t an election like previously the place well being care reform is a central situation being debated, well being care is a crucial situation for voters, and the events’ presumptive nominees have sharply divergent information and positions, detailed within the new side-by-side comparability device.
The device offers a fast overview of the candidates’ information as president, positions, public statements, and proposed insurance policies on 15 well being care subjects: the Inexpensive Care Act, Medicaid, abortion, contraception, LGBQ well being, gun violence, public well being, prescription drug costs, Medicare, well being care prices, psychological well being, opioid use, long-term care, international well being, and immigrant well being protection.
The device shall be constantly up to date all through the marketing campaign as new data and coverage particulars emerge.
In Altman’s accompanying column, Unraveling the Mysteries of Biden vs Trump on Well being Care, he writes that evaluating the candidates on well being care “was an particularly difficult task” this time.
“With a president working for re-election whose insurance policies are already set, and a former president who shuns coverage particulars, each camps are skipping over the standard coverage planning course of, and the routine job of describing the variations between the 2 candidates on well being points is a thousand-piece puzzle,” Altman writes.
Past the specifics of the candidates’ information and positions on well being points, Altman writes, “the variations are greater, amounting to a fork within the highway in course on the function of the federal authorities in well being and federal well being spending.” Trump, particularly, “avoids coverage and coverage particulars” so “the instructions he would possibly take need to be deduced from remarks he has made right here and there, positions he took when he was president, and most of all, from the coverage positions conservative Republican organizations have taken.”
