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95 Days to Election ’24: Analyzing the Health Care Issues

Originally broadcast August 1, 2024

The defining health care issues in this year’s election are crystalizing with reproductive rights remaining at the top of the list. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, has covered health policy fights for nearly four decades. She said, “I think this may be the first time that abortion rights drive people out to vote. The anti-abortion movement has always been the one that has been able to gin up their base, and the people who are sort of on the most extreme of the anti-abortion movement are the ones who are most devoted and…one of the reasons Republicans have courted them so assiduously is they show up and they vote.”

Rovner also weighed in on the 15 states or more states with abortion-related ballot initiatives and efforts to restrict the abortion pill mifepristone and end in vitro fertilization.

Rovner spoke to hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter on location at Aspen Ideas: Health. While the presidential race is in flux (including a change in the Democratic candidate), the core issues have remained consistent.

The hosts asked Rovner which health care question she’d most like to pose to former President Trump in a debate. “I don’t mean this in a negative way, I’d like to ask him if he knows the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, and whether he feels as strongly about preserving Medicaid as he said he does about Medicare.” She also analyzed the hurdles the Biden-Harris administration has had to date in communicating about what it sees as its health policy victories.

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