Trump vs Biden on Key Healthcare Issues
Trump and Biden’s plans for America’s health.
Health Insurance
Joe Biden: Joe Biden vows to protect the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or Obamacare) and support it with a Medicare-like option for people over the age of 60. He also promises to keep healthcare costs down for all Americans, public or private.
Donald Trump: Trump promises to end the ACA, claiming that its requirements are unfair. This year, Trump requested the Supreme Court to declare the ACA as unconstitutional. Trump claims his administration has expanded healthcare access to Americans in need.
COVID-19
Joe Biden: Joe Biden has a plan to fight off COVID-19 that includes free testing, sufficient PPE, safe and effective reopening plans, and safeguarding the health of older and at-risk populations. Biden also plans to raise frontline workers’ pay, and to allow Anthony Fauci, MD, to speak without restrictions.
Donald Trump: Trump has focused COVID-19 efforts on rural areas, supplying $225 million for testing in health clinics, and providing funding for 185 telehealthcare providers in 38 states.
Prescription Drug Pricing
Joe Biden: Biden vows to fight pharmaceutical company profiteering. Some of Biden’s plans include limiting drug companies’ leeway in raising prices; allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies, and allowing Americans to buy medication overseas.
Donald Trump: In July, Trump signed four executive orders that discount prices on insulin and epinephrine for low-income patients; allow the import of lower-priced drugs from other countries; combat profiteering by intermediaries, and make sure Americans pay the lowest available prices among developed nations for Medicare Part B drugs.
Opioids
Joe Biden: Biden intends to demand accountability from pharmaceutical companies. Some of his plans include stepping up efforts to keep fentanyl and heroin out of the U.S., ending incarceration-based drug offenses, and regular updates to federal guidelines.
Donald Trump: Trump declared opioids a public health emergency in 2017 and has stepped up efforts to criminally prosecute those who possess, manufacture, or distribute the widely abused painkiller fentanyl. Under Trump, the Department of Justice has prosecuted hundreds of doctors and healthcare providers for needlessly prescribing opioids.
Reproductive Rights
Joe Biden: Biden wants to prevent states from denying Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and reverse Trump’s Mexico City Policy to reinstate funding to overseas health organizations. He plans to restore the ACA’s coverage of contraception for all women and to make sure women affiliated with religious organizations can still receive coverage.
Donald Trump: Trump has worked to allow states to restrict funding to Planned Parenthood clinics for supporting reproductive rights and vowed to ensure taxpayer money doesn’t support healthcare exchange plans that provide for abortions. Trump also banned U.S. foreign aid to overseas healthcare organizations that offer information about abortion or perform the procedure.
Legalizing Marijuana
Joe Biden: Biden aims to decriminalize the drug, so those caught using it face fines instead of jail time. He also plans to take marijuana off the Schedule 1 list of drugs and to remove federal enforcement for states that have legalized marijuana.
Donald Trump: Trump does not support legalization, and has not offered plans to decriminalize the drug.
Healthcare and Long-Term Care for Older Americans
Joe Biden: Biden will work to prevent cuts to Medicaid benefits and allow seniors to use Medicaid to pay for community or home-based care. He also vows to create a tax credit for informal caregivers to pay for long-term care and promises to support the long-term solvency of Social Security.
Donald Trump: Trump credits his expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage and increased funding for nursing home inspections for helping protect seniors’ health. His administration has granted $1 billion for in-home care and home-delivered food for seniors and people with disabilities.
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