Joe Biden will improve the current healthcare system

With Donald Trump’s continuous chants to “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” and reducing spending on healthcare year on year, Joe Biden has presented himself as a defender of the ACA. Joe Biden is aware of the importance of healthcare in the current socio-political climate. When asked whether he would veto “Medicare for All”, the plan championed by many of the more left-leaning Democrats like Bernie Sanders, Biden’s response was “I would veto anything that delays providing the security and the certainty of health care being available now”^[1] . This displays a clear understanding of the urgency required to protect the American people from the pandemic before introducing radical reforms to the healthcare system as it stands. Instead, he is aiming to preserve the current structure of mixed private and government funded plans to reduce costs and lower the disruption to the American people, instead focusing on tightening the rules on health insurers^[2]. Biden is also proposing a series of control prices for drugs and introducing premium tax credits for middle class families to help them pay for better coverage. To lower drug prices, Biden is looking to limit launch prices and price increases for medicines, and allowing consumers to buy prescriptions from abroad. As such, Biden is looking to expand and improve on the ACA by small and measured steps to reduce cost and confusion for the American people.

[P1] Biden want to improve the ACA. [P2] His plan outlines the areas which need improvement and how to achieve it. [P3] Biden will implement these reforms when elected into office.