Vance-Walz Debate Highlighted Clear Health Policy Differences - KFF Health News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Affordable Care Act enrollment declined by more than 2 million people during Trump's presidency, and the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2.3 million, including 726,000 children, from 2016 to 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau reported; that includes three years of Trump's presidency.
48% : Comparison data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tracks how many patients are "left without being seen" as part of its effort to characterize whether emergency departments are able to handle their patient loads.
44% : Another Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2024 datapoint shows Mercy Health patients spent less time in the emergency department per visit on average -- 152 minutes -- compared with state and national figures: 183 minutes and 211 minutes, respectively.
28% : As president, Trump worked to undermine and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
21% : Vance offered details about Trump's health care "concepts of a plan" - a reference to comments Trump made during the presidential debate that drew jeers and criticism for the former president, who for years said he had a plan to replace the ACA that never surfaced.
14% : "Since joining the Trump ticket, Vance has aligned his abortion rhetoric to match Trump's and has said that abortion legislation should be left up to the states.

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