President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are heading to Atlanta for a presidential campaign debate set to start at 9 p.m. Thursday.

For viewers with an interest in health insurance and employee benefits, the debate will be a kind of high-stakes policymaking bingo game, with points given for each mention of issues such as prescription drug costs, Medicare Advantage plan rules and differences in states' health insurance rules.

One difference between this debate and others held in the television era is that Biden and Trump have both been president. They can point to what they, and their opponents, have actually done while in office, not simply talk about what they'd like to do.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.