Advisory Board June 28, 2024
In the first presidential debate of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump sparred over abortion, drug prices, Medicare, and the opioid crisis.
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The healthcare topics from the debate
Abortion
Trump argued that “everybody wanted to get [the power to legislate on abortion] back to the states. Everybody without exception, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it back … Every legal scholar throughout the world, the most respected, wanted it brought back to the states.”
In response, Biden said that Trump had done “a terrible thing” overturning Roe v. Wade and argued against states making their own rules for abortion.
“The idea that states are able to do...