Making sense of the debate’s health care debate

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The post-debate debate

I know, no one wants to talk about the first 2024 presidential debate. But we’ve got post-debate polls, Democratic tension and real questions about where the race, and the conversation around health care policy, go from here. From “we finally beat Medicare,” to abortion rights, health programs’ solvency, and high drug prices, there was a surprising amount of health care debate Thursday night — but little of it substantive, or accurate.

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