The final presidential debate was held between Donald Trump, representing the Republican party, and Joe Biden, representing the Democratic party. The discussion was much calmer and more relaxed this time. Both the President and the Vice President did not argue as they did in the previous debate. This debate was made by Kristen Welker, a journalist who works for NBC News.
Affordable Health Care is very important because of COVID – 19 and with the economy not doing, people losing their jobs they need to have some sort of way to afford Healthcare. The first question was asked to President Trump about how he would do better health care acts and his first response. Not to talk about the plan but talk about how the elimination process is going for the Obama Care. He pointed out how there were problems in health care since it was run, so people would have to pay a lot of money. He pointed out that the Removal of Obama Healthcare is in process at the Supreme court. He then followed on to talk about how he would come up with a ‘brand new beautiful health care’.
On the other hand, Biden care was a fully ready plan to launch and be provided to the public which is going to be run by the government. He said that this would have a public option, so people who have their private insurance would not have to change to this health care. There was an analysis done by a nonpartisan who said that this plan that Biden is proposing would reduce the prices on the ACA exchanges and lower the Employer-Based Premiums. Trump had promised that he would make a better plan than the ACA which was going to protect people who had preexisting conditions, but when this plan was studied by the experts, they said that is going to be pretty expensive compared to the previous Healthcare. Trump also started talking about Bernie Sanders and the idea that he had failed and Biden’s response to him was that Trump didn’t know who he was standing against him because he was mentioning people he beat. Biden said that ‘I beat all those other people because I disagreed with them.’
What do you guys think about the answers from both parties? Do you think they justified their answer?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-says-obamacare-must-die-biden-says-he-ll-make-n1244454.
2 comments:
I think that it will be interesting to see how Biden is able to build on the ACA. Given Biden was Obama's VP, and therefore was the right-hand man to the person who developed the ACA, Biden should be the best suited person to tweak the ACA based on its failures and help develop this plan. It is interesting that Biden's new healthcare plan does not propose to mandate that the public adopt this healthcare plan, but has the option to stay on their previous private insurance plan. This is counter to Obama's attempt to mandate accepting Obamacare or paying a fine. If it is true that this proposed plan can decrease the price of premiums, it is no doubt a worthwhile investment and likely as good of a healthcare plan as possible. Unfortunately, even if this is true, people who do not support any sort of government-provided healthcare may not be willing to adopt this plan, given a moral objection to taking "government handouts."
Now that Biden is the president-elect, it is going to be interesting to see how he actually carries out his plan once he steps into office. The Affordable Care Act has helped shrink disparities despite some states still effectively allowing for its expansion, however, no federal health policy has yet to eradicate the disparities that there are, especially for minority groups. And though Trump has been defeated and will no longer be in office, the future of the Affordable Health Care ACT might still be compromised. Both parties justified their answers to suit their agendas more than anything, in reality it all comes down to them (instance now Biden's admnistration) actually developing a plan that will be effective in decreasing premiums, and giving millions of Americans Health Care Coverage they are promised and that they simply deserve.
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