Unraveling the Mysteries of Biden vs. Trump on Health Care Drew Altman Published: Jun 24, 2024

https://www.kff.org/from-drew-altman/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-biden-vs-trump-on-health-care/?utm_campaign=KFF-Health-Policy-101&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_08Db6AErCixRs8kcgtHFSbHQ2Golu5jBMgClCU_AV70VcjxRoZrQMcBK-D8hKNc5gBz37158Ki80UkcYl4Zg8I7G4Dw&_hsmi=312903414&utm_content=312903414&utm_source=hs_email In Altman’s accompanying column, Unraveling the Mysteries of Biden vs Trump on Health Care, he writes that comparing the candidates on health care “was an especially tricky assignment” this time. “With a president running for re-election whose policies are already set, and a former president who shuns policy details, both camps are skipping over the usual policy planning process, and the routine job of describing the differences between the two candidates on health issues is a thousand-piece puzzle,” Altman writes. Beyond the specifics of the candidates’ records and positions on health issues, Altman writes, “the differences are bigger, amounting to a fork in the road in direction on the role of the federal government in health and federal health spending.” Trump, in particular, “avoids policy and policy details” so “the directions he might take have to be deduced from remarks he has made here and there, positions he took when he was president, and most of all, from the policy positions conservative Republican organizations have taken.”