MedPage Today September 12, 2024
— Can our future leaders place public health ahead of politics?
Tuesday’s presidential debate covered primarily non-healthcare policy topics, but at least some airtime was given to the contentious issues of abortion and the COVID response, as well as a brief re-litigation of the now-14-year-old Affordable Care Act. Yet, despite former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ competing visions of the American Dream and our nation’s future, some room for commonality may still exist on certain healthcare issues which pervade every American’s life.
Republicans and Democrats disagree vehemently on multiple aspects of healthcare policy: the roles of private insurers, federal regulation of pharmaceutical innovation, the duty versus burden of government involvement in public health mandates, and many others....