ELECTION ISSUE
Status:Open

Where Do Candidates Stand on Health Care?

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CAREMARKET-BASED HEALTH CARE

Positions

Tim Walz
Tim Walz"Health care is a basic human right."
Kamala Harris
Kamala HarrisAccess to health care should be a right — not just a privilege for those who can afford it.
Chase Oliver
Chase Oliver"We must lower the regulatory burden on the pharmaceutical industry."
Cornel West
Cornel West"We need national, improved Medicare for All."
Tim Walz
Tim Walz"I think the idea of making sure the risk pool is broad enough to cover everyone, that's the only way [health] insurance works."Oct 02, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris"[W]hat we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act."Sep 11, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim WalzDonald Trump "wants to bring us back to the time before the Affordable Care Act."
Donald Trump
Donald Trump"Let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr."I will deschedule ibogaine and all psychedelic medicines."
Metaculus
MetaculusWill the US federal government pass legislation by 2040 to provide universal healthcare for American citizens?
J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance"We want to make sure everybody is covered, but the best way to do that is to actually promote more choice in our health care system."
Jill Stein
Jill Stein"We need a universal healthcare system that is equitable, comprehensive, free at point of service, and accessible to every single person in the US."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr."We spend more on health care than any country on Earth, twice what they pay in Europe, and yet we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world."
Donald Trump
Donald Trump"I don't want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!"
J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance"We want to keep those regulations in place, but we also want to make the health insurance marketplace function a little bit better."Oct 02, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris"I absolutely support ... private health care options."Sep 11, 2024
J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance"Kamala Harris's plan to give Social Security and Medicare to illegal immigrants would bankrupt this country."
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris"We will award nearly $300 million to expand access to mental health services in schools."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr."My administration is going to massively shift public health resources to chronic conditions like obesity."




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