The race to win the quickly approaching Iowa caucuses was the theme running through Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Front-runner Donald Trump was again absent and only two other candidates made the cut: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
DeSantis and Haley fired a frenzy of attacks at each other’s records and positions. The faceoff was moderated by CNN “State of the Union” co-anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
Our PolitiFact partners fact-checked the debate in real time. You can read the full coverage here.
The two candidates touched on a variety of health care topics. As in previous debates, they each questioned the other’s anti-abortion bona fides and reaffirmed their own. They sparred over covid-19 policies as well as whether to push China out of the U.S. supply chain for pharmaceuticals and other health-related products.
Asked whether, as president, they would preserve the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, both said — after being pressed for clarification — they would like to convert the program to a block grant. That’s generally understood to be an approach in which federal funding is capped but state flexibility is increased.
Forty states and the District of Columbia, but not South Carolina or Florida, have expanded Medicaid under the ACA, which is credited with providing insurance coverage to millions more Americans.
Block-granting Medicaid isn’t a new idea. The approach has long been favored by Republicans an …
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The race to win the quickly approaching Iowa caucuses was the theme running through Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Front-runner Donald Trump was again absent and only two other candidates made the cut: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
DeSantis and Haley fired a frenzy of attacks at each other’s records and positions. The faceoff was moderated by CNN “State of the Union” co-anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
Our PolitiFact partners fact-checked the debate in real time. You can read the full coverage here.
The two candidates touched on a variety of health care topics. As in previous debates, they each questioned the other’s anti-abortion bona fides and reaffirmed their own. They sparred over covid-19 policies as well as whether to push China out of the U.S. supply chain for pharmaceuticals and other health-related products.
Asked whether, as president, they would preserve the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, both said — after being pressed for clarification — they would like to convert the program to a block grant. That’s generally understood to be an approach in which federal funding is capped but state flexibility is increased.
Forty states and the District of Columbia, but not South Carolina or Florida, have expanded Medicaid under the ACA, which is credited with providing insurance coverage to millions more Americans.
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