Election 2024: The cost of healthcare
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The cost of healthcare is through the roof and programs designed to reduce these costs, such as Medicare are facing major opposition. Some medical experts are saying, voting in this year’s election could be the difference between life or death for millions of Americans.
Dr. Dave Montgomery is a cardiologist in Atlanta, “My staff and i spend a lot more time calling insurance companies to try to argue for life saving medications.”
Dr. Montgomery says key drugs have become unaffordable for the majority of his patients on Medicare, “your out-of-pocket responsibility is much higher in these plans then it was before.”
Dr. Montgomery said voting down the ballot in this year’s general election, has the power to change some of those costs, “this is not just a president or vice president that’s going to change your healthcare … it’s going to be the entire political landscape.”
Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have vowed to reduce these costs
JD Vance is Trump’s running mate, “I want to go back to president Trump’s record on this … all of the policies that drove the cost to insulin to $35 a unit are policies that he enacted during his term.”
But the Harris Walz campaign says, that was then, back four years ago in 2020. They now pointing to Project 2025.
Tim Walz is Harris’ running mate, “it’s an agenda that serves no one but the richest among us.”
Project 2025 is drafted by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation intended to provide a blueprint for a conservative administration. The documents include proposals to raise the cost of prescription drugs for seniors .and to cut Medicare benefits for millions …
Vice President Kamala Harris says, “it’s time to chart a new way forward. Not as members of any party but as American’s.
In a statement, the Harris-Walz campaign outlined their health care proposals, “Harris plans to go after big pharma to demand transparency while working to lower the costs of healthcare for all Americans.
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