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In one of the stranger policy twists, the Trump administration ended payments to ACA insurers to compensate them for a requirement to provide reduced cost sharing for low-income patients. At the time, Trump said this would cause Obamacare to be “dead” and “gone.”. But, insurers responded by increasing premiums, which in turn increased ...
During his presidency, Trump advanced measures to improve price transparency by health care organizations and payers alike. His administration promulgated regulations requiring hospitals to publish their prices including negotiated discounts on a list of 200 services, and required that the data be furnished in a machine-readable format.
Below is an overview of how Trump’s record compares with Biden’s proposals on a range of major health care issues. COVID-19. Trump: As of mid-August, the US accounted for 4% of the world’s population but 25% of all COVID-19 cases and 22% of deaths. He has on many occasions downplayed the severity of the pandemic, sent mixed signals on ...
On February 10, the White House released President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 budget. 1 Budgets are often described as statements of priorities. This budget attempts to obscure what remains atop the Trump administration’s health policy priority list: eliminating the coverage expansions implemented by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ...
Other health care issues could also separate the candidates as the campaign rolls on. For example, the Trump campaign has criticized DeSantis for “mass vaccinations” and “radical lockdowns,” though DeSantis backed away from measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and has recently expressed views skeptical of vaccination.
During the Trump era, the rate of growth of health care spending has slowed, but national health expenditures are still increasing. In 2015, health care spending was $3.2 trillion, or $9930 per person, and accounted for 17.4% of gross domestic product; by 2019, health care spending had increased to $3.8 trillion, or $11 582 per person, and ...
The HHS rule does not take access to care into consideration, which will primarily affect rural and underserved communities. Forty-six states already have laws or policies allowing health care entities to refuse to provide abortion services , which means that women who are poor, disabled, or otherwise disadvantaged will find it hard to access ...
Costs of medical care and drugs, as well as the cost of health insurance, are of great concern to voters older than 50 years, as reported by Ayanian and colleagues. 13 Affordable health care access varies across the US partly because of state decisions to expand Medicaid. 14 Similarly, despite promises that Medicare Advantage plans make health ...
Figure 1. County-Level Death Counts in Florida and Ohio in Linked Voter-Mortality Data vs Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics Data, 2018-2021
Although the economy and national security will likely attract the most attention in the upcoming 2024 presidential election, polling suggests that health issues will also continue to be very important for voters. 1 Despite former President Trump’s recent criticism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is unlikely that Republicans will want to make repeal of the ACA a ...