CORE VALUES

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HEALTH CARE GOALS

• Support of affordable healthcare and childcare and paid leave

• Supports the Affordable Care Act which is just like Medicare, but anyone can join, not just seniors

• Adults who should be eligible for Medicaid but who live in states where Medicaid hasn’t been expand, will be

• Harris supports doubling investments in community health centers and rural health clinics in underserved urban and rural areas

• We will vigorously use antitrust laws to fight against mega-mergers in the hospital, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries

• We will outlaw the predatory practice of surprise medical billing by health care providers.

PUSH BACK ON BIG PHARMA

• Americans do not pay more for prescription drugs than people in other advanced economies

• Take on Big Pharma and cap the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans

• Capped insulin at $35/month and will cap out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors with chronic health conditions at little or no cost.

• Medical debt can no longer be included in you credit score.

EXPAND ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE TREATMENT

• Enforce the federal mental health and substance use disorder parity law and ensure that health insurers adequately cover mental health and substance use treatment

• The opioid epidemic has devastated American communities, Harris will make medication-assisted treatment available to all who need it

Home and Community-Based Services

• We will modernize Medicaid eligibility so people with disabilities do not have to work low-wage jobs to access needed services

• We will also help Americans pay for long-term care by creating a tax credit for informal and family caregivers

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HARRIS PLAN “Health Care”

GENERAL

As President, Harris will take on the cost of healthcare. She took on insurance companies and Big Phara and got them to lower their prices. And with President Biden, they have capped the price of insulin at $35 a month and the total cost of prescription at $2,000 a year for seniors. They let Medicare negotiate lower drug prices for seniors and reduced the cost of many prescription drugs by 10%. She will continue this program for everybody and demand transparency from middlemen who increase medicines you need.

HEALTHCARE REFORM

Harris, who has had shifting stances on health care in the past, confirmed in late July through her campaign that she no longer supports a single-payer health care system. Harris argued that she adjusted her plan based on feedback she received from voters, and was willing to deal with the political fallout. She supports efforts to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, which has led to a record number of people signing up for 2024 coverage from private insurers on the individual market.

Harris is expected to extend the enhanced ACA subsidies, which will otherwise sunset at the end of 2025. These subsidies help Americans afford health insurance on the exchanges by capping premiums at a percentage of their income on a sliding scale.

She is also expected to work to expand Medicaid coverage in the 10 remaining non-expansion states.

As for Medicare, she previously supported President’s Biden’s plan to increase taxes for Americans who earn more than $400,000 annually to help keep the program solvent.

HARRIS ENDORSES THE 2024 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM – See Below

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SOURCE: FOX 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXklndTXKGE

SOURCE: Speech Aug 10 Las Vegas

SOURCE: Speech: July 25 Teacher’s Union in Houston

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2024 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM  POSITION: Health Care

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SUPPORT THE AFFORDABLE HEAYH CARE ACT

PUSH BACK ON BIG PHARMA

CONTROL THE COST FOR MEDICAL CARE

EXPEND ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT

COMPASSIONATE TREAT OF OPIOID ADDICTION

EXPAND LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES

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HOW THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT.

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Build Upon our Bedrock Health Care Programs

Democrats believe we need to protect, strengthen, and build upon our bedrock health care programs, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Affairs (VA) system. Private insurers need real competition to ensure they have incentive to provide affordable, quality coverage to every American.

To achieve that objective, we will give all Americans the choice to select a high-quality, affordable public option through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The public option will provide at least one plan choice without deductibles; will be administered by CMS, not private companies; and will cover all primary care without any co-payments and control costs for other treatments by negotiating prices with doctors and hospitals, just like Medicare does on behalf of older people. Everyone will be eligible to choose the public option or another Affordable Care Act marketplace plan.

Expand Medacaid

The lowest-income Americans, including more than four million adults who should be eligible for Medicaid but who live in states where Republican governors have refused to expand the program, will be automatically enrolled in the public option without premiums; they may opt out at any time.

Support Community Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics

Democrats support doubling investments in community health centers and rural health clinics in underserved urban and rural areas, including increased support for dental care, mental health care, and substance use services like medication-assisted treatment, and why we will increase support for mobile health clinics.

Address Critical Health Care Shortages

We will expand the National Health Service Corps and Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program to grow a diverse primary care workforce and to address critical shortages of health care providers in medically underserved rural and urban areas.

Fight Big Pharma

Too many Americans struggle to afford the prescription drugs they need to get or stay healthy. No American should find themselves foregoing or rationing medications because they can’t afford to pay—especially when taxpayer money underwrites research leading to the development of many prescription drugs in the first place.

Democrats will take aggressive action to ensure that Americans do not pay more for prescription drugs than people in other advanced economies, and ensure that all necessary medications are covered. We will empower Medicare to at last be able to negotiate prescription drug prices for all public and private purchasers—for families and businesses, as well as older Americans—no matter where they get their coverage. Democrats will crack down on anti-competitive efforts to manipulate the patent system or collude on prices. And we will eliminate tax breaks for prescription drug advertisements.

Expand Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment

Every American who needs it should be able to access mental health care or substance use disorder treatment, no matter where they live. Democrats will aggressively enforce the federal mental health and substance use disorder parity law and ensure that health insurers adequately cover mental health and substance use treatment.

The Opioid Epidemic

Democrats will make medication-assisted treatment available to all who need it, and will require publicly supported health clinics to offer medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction and approved treatments for other substance use disorders

Expanding Long-Term Care Services

Democrats will work to eliminate waiting lists for home and community-based care and the institutional bias within Medicaid, making investments in building the capacity of the Medicaid system to provide home and community-based services. We will modernize Medicaid eligibility so people with disabilities do not have to work low-wage jobs to access needed services, and to ensure the spouses of people with disabilities can maintain a certain level of income and assets. We will also help Americans pay for long-term care by creating a tax credit for informal and family caregivers and increasing the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.

Control Medical Costs

Democrats believe that when Americans are in the hospital or an emergency room, they shouldn’t have to worry about whether their health care providers are in-network or not, which is why we will outlaw the predatory practice of surprise medical billing.We will work to increase price transparency in the health care system across all payers, and reduce paperwork through uniform medical billing. And we will vigorously use antitrust laws to fight against mega-mergers in the hospital, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries that would raise prices for patients by undermining market competition.

NOTE: To learn more and see the complete Democratic Platform, go to: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform

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SOURCE: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/building-a-stronger-fairer-economy/