Healthcare Reform in President Trump ’s America – A Preliminary Look

This post was originally published on 9 November 2016 in http://www.healthpopuli.com/.
It’s the 9th of November, 2016, and Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States of America. On this morning after #2016Election, Health Populi looks at what we know we know about President Elect-Trump’s health policy priorities.
Repeal-and-replace has been Mantra #1 for Mr. Trump’s health policy. With all three branches of the U.S. government under Republican control in 2018, this policy prescription may have a strong shot. The complication is that the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare in Mr. Trump’s tweet) includes several provisions that the newly-insured and American health citizens really value, including:

Extending health insurance to dependent children up to age 26
Closing Medicare’s “doughnut hole” (for Medicare Part D which covers prescription drugs for older Americans)
Covering people with pre-existing medical conditions
Covering preventive services, and
Providing subsidies that lower the cost of insurance.

What nobody likes is the direct consumer cost of health care — ACA’s lack of affordability, which was predicated on a competitive insurance marketplace and near-universal sign-ups for health insurance bolstered by a mandate for consumers to purchase insurance. Without these pillars in place, insurance companies have pulled out of local markets where they cannot be financially viable, leaving many consumers with only one choice f...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Health IT Health Professions Health Reform Uncategorized Source Type: blogs