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Why aren’t the Republicans talking about health?

Volume 403, Issue 10450
27 July 2024 

WORLD REPORT  Health-care issues were conspicuously absent from the 4-day party convention culminating in Donald Trump’s nomination as the Republican 2024 presidential candidate. Susan Jaffe reports.

Former US President Donald Trump spent 93 minutes accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president last week, exceeding his own 2016 record for the longest acceptance speech at a political convention. But there was no time to mention major health-care issues such as abortion, the COVID-19 pandemic, medical research funding, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or the opioid epidemic, to name a few. Yet domestic and global healthcare spending consume the largest part of the US budget. [Continued here.]…

Biden unwinds Trump health-care policies

Volume 397, Issue 10272
30 January 2021

 

WORLD REPORT A Democrat in the White House and a Democratic Congress could bring big changes to US health policy, but challenges remain. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC. 

…Before the Biden Administration can tackle other health priorities, the first order of business is the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 420 000 Americans—a death toll higher than that of any other nation—and has exposed health-care inequities and crippled the economy. …Although Biden will have a lot of support for his health-care agenda, “that doesn’t mean that it’s smooth sailing”, said Lanhee Chen, a public policy fellow at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. “I think there are still a lot of people who are very upset about the outcome of the election.” [Full story here.]…

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Volume 380, Issue 9846,  15 September 2012

 

WORLD REPORT   Additional new health benefits for women began under the US Affordable Care Act last month, which experts hope will remain after the Nov 6 election. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC. 

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promises to dismantle President Barack Obama’s landmark health-care reform law if elected. But as the presidential campaign progresses, various provisions of the law continue to kick into gear…. [more]
Panel: Abortion and the Affordable Care Act

In the final days of the congressional health reform debate, abortion coverage nearly derailed the legislation…. [more]