STAT June 27, 2024
WASHINGTON — For the most part, substantive debates on health policy between President Biden and former President Trump were overshadowed by mistakes, errors, and blatant falsehoods in Thursday night’s presidential debate.
Biden had difficulty articulating his accomplishments in office and points of contrast with Trump on health care. Trump misrepresented how federal programs work, inflated policies in his tenure, and simply evaded some questions.
Trump did shed more light on his abortion policy stance, while Biden touted his support for abortion rights and efforts to lower drug prices.
But an exchange on Medicare filled with flubbed lines and falsehoods proved to be more the norm. Instead of having a serious back and forth about how to fund the program, a...
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