Hey Biden, Hit Trump Where It Hurts: Health Care

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : He has also promised to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act's provision allowing the government to negotiate lower prices in Medicare for certain prescription drugs.Taken all together, Trump's vision for health care would take health care coverage away from tens of millions of people, enable the big insurance and pharmaceutical corporations to price-gouge at will, privatize Medicare, and raise the cost of prescription drugs.
46% : Biden could choose to play on Trump's turf and attempt to show the public how deranged and detached from reality Trump is, or he could use his time on stage -- in front of possibly the largest TV audience he will have for the rest of the election -- to draw a sharp contrast with Trump about their visions for the country and the policies each would pursue for the next four years.
46% : The debate stage is a unique opportunity to drive home the consequences of reelecting Trump in terms that voters can easily understand: consequences for our health care.
45% : The truth is Trump and his allies have not been shy about their plans to destroy the health care system as we know it.
45% : He also proposed massive cuts to both Medicare and Medicaid and appointed health insurance and pharmaceutical executives to key positions throughout his administration.
40% : As Ron Brownstein recently laid out, Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have plans to repeal the requirement for insurers to offer affordable coverage to people with preexisting conditions, transform Medicare from insurance into a private voucher program, and turn both Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) into a state block grant which will ration care and could deny people access to coverage even if they're eligible.
40% : Trump and other Republicans have made clear they are not only planning on doubling down on the worst of his policies from his first term but preparing for a stunning and unprecedented attack on our health care system in a second term.
40% : So much of voters' perceptions of Trump are already baked into his poll numbers.
36% : In short, Trump will talk about anything except what he plans to do if he regains the keys to the White House.
33% : And what is not yet baked into the voter's equation is what Trump would do with a second term in the White House, one in which he would not be reined in by any laws or norms.
28% : Despite Trump and his allies' openly announcing their intentions, most voters have no idea about any of it.
27% : And Trump wouldn't stop there.
22% : Health care is one of the issue areas where the vast majority of voters trust Biden over Trump.
21% : When former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden face off in their first debate tomorrow, it is likely that Trump will use the national stage and massive TV audience to lie, distract, play the victim, and recite a laundry list of grievances.
21% : What Trump will do in the upcoming debate is obvious; what Biden will do is unknown.
19% : Trump wants to take a wrecking ball to the health care system in this nation, rolling back progress on everything from affordable coverage to lower-cost prescriptions and new rules to stop price-gouging in Medicare.
12% : A second Trump presidency could have a devastating impact across many issues, but the difference between Trump and Biden could not be starker than on health care -- the issue that most Americans still cite as one of their top concerns.
6% : And while it is a massive political problem for Biden and Democrats that voters have forgotten about many of the horrific, cruel, and dangerous policies Trump enacted while he was in office, it is an even bigger problem for Biden and Democrats that most voters have no idea about Trump's even more extreme plans for a second term.

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