Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in the first vice presidential debate on Tuesday.
Health care has featured prominently in the campaign so far, and the debate could be a key opportunity for each side to press the other on their plans – and to attack the records of the candidates at the top of the opposing tickets.
Vance has thrust ObamaCare back into the national conversation with his explanation of former President Trump’s “concepts of a plan” for health insurance reform, while Walz has continued to make reproductive freedom a central piece of his stump speech.
Here are some of the main issues we are watching for:
ObamaCare
One of the issues getting the most attention ahead of debate is one that Republicans have largely sought to avoid in recent years.
Subsidies that help about 20 million people afford insurance are set to expire next year, and whether they get renewed will depend on the outcome in November. The subsidies were first put into effect during the height of the coronavirus pandemic as part of the economic recovery law, and later extended in the Inflation Reduction Act.