President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off in a presidential campaign debate in Atlanta Thursday, and they touched on a wide range of health care issues. The debate, which was produced by CNN, focused heavily on national security, the national debt and inflation. The candidates did not address four of the 10 health policy topics that we suggested they could discuss: obesity, children's health, health care cost transparency and employee benefits. When they discussed a fifth topic we suggested, pandemic preparedness, they focused on criticizing each other's strategy for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, not on efforts to prevent and cope with future pandemics. They spent more time talking about the other five topics. Related: The 2024 Biden-Trump presidential debate: A health policy bingo card For a look at what they said about those five topics, see the gallery above.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
