The platform highlights many of what Democrats see as winning issues: Restoring Roe v. Wade, protecting IVF access, reducing drug costs and keeping the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.
The platform “makes a strong statement about the historic work that President Biden and Vice President Harris have accomplished hand-in-hand, and offers a vision for a progressive agenda that we can build on as a nation and as a Party as we head into the next four years,” the DNC said in a statement.
The document addresses some of the actions the Biden-Harris administration has taken on issues like Medicare drug price negotiation and surprise medical bills and promises to expand them.
The first 10 drugs that Medicare could negotiate over landed last week. While there are questions about just how much savings individual beneficiaries could see, and the prices won’t take effect until 2026, Democrats vowed to add 50 drugs to the list so Medicare could negotiate the prices for 500 drugs by the end of the decade.
On reproductive rights, the platform vowed that the next administration, with the help of a Democratic Congress, will pass legislation to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade. It’s become a standard Democratic talking point, though some progressives are pushing to do much more than return the status quo to 1973.
Democrats said they want to protect access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), strengthen access to contraception and repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funds from covering abortions.
