Less than a month before the November election, Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) made the Harris campaign’s latest bid to turn out voters in the Silver State, highlighting a recently announced proposal to cover home care, vision and hearing under Medicare and receiving Nevada’s first tribal endorsement of the cycle.
In a nearly half-hour speech to an audience of about 2,000 people, Walz discussed housing, the economy and health care, touting the campaign’s plans for $25,000 down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, Medicare’s negotiation of prescription drug prices under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Medicare announcement to help individuals caring for children and aging parents.
“For the first time in history, [Harris] negotiated with Big Pharma to make sure that we can now negotiate for Medicare drugs. The savings we make from that can pay for our senior care,” Walz said, highlighting how funding for Harris’ Medicare proposal will come from the drug-price negotiation plan and crackdowns on hidden drug costs.