2024 presidential candidates on healthcare

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This page includes statements from the 2024 presidential candidates on healthcare. These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and debates.

The candidates featured on this page were the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who addressed this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed? Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates as of November 5, 2025, were:

Kamala Harris (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Chase Oliver (L)
Jill Stein (G)

Healthcare

Democratic candidates

Kamala D. Harris

Harris' campaign website said, "Vice President Harris will make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act and making permanent the Biden-Harris tax credit enhancements that are lowering health care premiums by an average of about $800 a year for millions of Americans. She’ll build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s successes in bringing down the cost of lifesaving prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries by extending the $35 cap on insulin and $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket spending for seniors to all Americans. Her tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare the power to go toe to toe with Big Pharma and negotiate lower drug prices. As President, she’ll accelerate the negotiations to cover more drugs and lower prices for Americans. As Vice President, she also announced that medical debt will be removed from credit reports, and helped cancel $7 billion of medical debt for 3 million Americans. As President, she’ll work with states to cancel medical debt for even more Americans. And Vice President Harris has led the Administration’s efforts to combat maternal mortality. Women nationwide are dying from childbirth at higher rates than in any other developed nation. The Vice President called on states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from two months to twelve: today, 46 states do so—up from just three near the Administration’s start." ^{[source, as of 2024-09-09]}

Dean Phillips

Phillips' campaign website said, "Dean will work with Congress to develop a Medicare for All national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive healthcare coverage, free at the point of service. This system would eliminate deductibles, copays, and surprise bills for a broad umbrella of medical coverage including dental, vision, hearing, mental and emotional health, substance abuse treatment and recovery, reproductive and maternity care, long-term care, in-patient and out-patient services, prescription drugs, and more. Alongside the implementation of Medicare for All, Dean will end the pharmaceutical industry’s price-gouging of hardworking Americans by implementing a 90% excise tax on any price incremental to what is offered to our neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Americans will no longer accept this inequitable policy." ^{[source, as of 2024-01-12]}

Marianne Williamson

Williamson's campaign website said, "We need a single-payer healthcare system. The WHOLE HEALTH PLAN expands the healthcare debate, tackling not only how to pay for healthcare but also how to provide greater opportunities for health. The problem in America is not just that our current healthcare system fails to adequately treat sickness. The problem is our current economic system, based as it is on an inordinate focus on short-term profit, actually increases the probability of sickness." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Republican candidates

Ryan Binkley

Binkley's campaign website said, "Insurance companies and hospitals work hand-in-hand, creating a virtual monopoly that drives costs through the roof while taking away your choices and power. They use their money and influence to convince us all that healthcare is too complicated for us to understand. That’s why healthcare is the only major expense most Americans accept without knowing what we’re getting, how much it costs, what the alternatives are, and if it will even work. We can end the healthcare monopoly and put patients back in charge by promoting transparency and real competition. Hospitals and insurance companies should have to compete for your business, not the other way around, and you should be able to shop for the best insurance, medicine, and care without worrying about state borders." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Ron DeSantis

In a Republican debate DeSantis said, "We are going to go after the cost. You’re paying too much for everything. We’ve actually addressed this in Florida in some ways, but you need price transparency. You need to hold the pharmaceuticals accountable. You need to hold big insurance and big government accountable, and we’re going to get that done." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-06]}

Nikki Haley

In a Republican debate Haley said, "First of all, how can we be the best country in the world and have the most expensive healthcare in the world? We have an issue. [...] When I am President, we will break all of it. From the insurance company to the hospitals, to the doctor’s offices, to the PBMs, to the pharmaceutical companies, we will make it all transparent because when you do that you will realize that’s what the problem is. Second thing is you’ve got to deal with tort law. The doctors don’t give you the 10 tests because they want to. It’s because of the 90% chance they’ll get sued. And then we need to bring competition back to healthcare, get rid of certificate of need systems, and make sure that they can compete. We have to put the patient in the driver’s seat. They’ve been in the backseat for way too long." ^{[source, as of 2023-09-27]}

Vivek Ramaswamy

In a Republican debate Ramaswamy said, "We don’t have a healthcare system in this country. We have a sick care system. We need to start having diverse insurance options in a competitive marketplace that cover actual health, preventative medicine, diet, exercise, lifestyle and otherwise. And here’s how we deliver that, end the antitrust exemptions for health insurance companies. That’s where the competitive marketplace begins. That’s crony capitalism, and that’s the answer." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-06]}

Donald Trump

Trump's campaign website said, "President Donald J. Trump empowered American patients by greatly expanding healthcare choice, transparency, and affordability. He increased competition in the health insurance market, eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate, and signed Right to Try that gives terminally ill patients access to lifesaving cures. President Trump lowered drug prices for the first time in over 50 years and finalized the Most Favored Nation Rule to ensure that pharmaceutical companies offer the same discounts to the United States as they do to other nations." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}