Where’s your health care plan, Mr. President? (opinion)
4 years, 3 months ago

Where’s your health care plan, Mr. President? (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: John Avlon is a CNN’s senior political analyst. It’s going to be great — “everybody’s going to be taken care of”… there will be insurance for everybody … no one will lose coverage … “there will be no cuts” to Medicaid … and “no one will be worse off financially.” Those are just some of the repeated promises President Trump and his administration have made about his phantom plan. In July, he told Chris Wallace, “we’re signing a health care plan within two weeks.” Big news, right? It has, however, made it impossible to get conservative consensus on what a comprehensive Republican health care plan would look like — especially with Trump’s pie-in-the-sky rhetoric on what his imaginary plan would achieve. With the President is at war with science and death tolls rise, here’s the hard truth: The much-hyped Trump health care plan is just another one of his lies.

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'Still Just Concepts?': NBC's Kristen Welker Presses Trump For Details On Health Care Plan
2 weeks ago

'Still Just Concepts?': NBC's Kristen Welker Presses Trump For Details On Health Care Plan

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NBC News’ Kristen Welker took on Donald Trump’s talk of “concepts of a plan” for health care in a sit-down interview with the president-elect on Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press.” “Sir, you said during the campaign you had concepts of a plan. Do you have a fully developed plan?” asked the host of “Meet the Press.” …

Health Insurance For Millions Is Now Officially At Stake
1 month ago

Health Insurance For Millions Is Now Officially At Stake

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Everyone knew what Donald Trump and the Republicans had in mind for health care when they were about to take power eight years ago, because they had announced their intentions repeatedly — and loudly. Pressed on specifics, he famously said during his televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that he had “concepts of a plan.” Prominent …

Fact check: What are Trump’s plans for US economy, immigration, abortion?
1 month, 1 week ago

Fact check: What are Trump’s plans for US economy, immigration, abortion?

Al Jazeera  

US president-elect made lots of promises about immigration, education, healthcare and abortion during his campaign, but what details do we know? If he follows through, the price increases on consumer goods “could more than offset the benefits” of Trump’s other proposed tax changes, Garrett Watson, a Tax Foundation senior policy analyst, said. There are persistent labour shortages in plumbing and …

How health care could change under the new Trump administration
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How health care could change under the new Trump administration

NPR  

How health care could change under the new Trump administration toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and coming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — potentially increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care. Trump said in an …

‘Take a blowtorch’: Trump cronies share how they plan to end ObamaCare
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Take a blowtorch’: Trump cronies share how they plan to end ObamaCare

Raw Story  

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson say they have big plans to implement "massive" changes to the entire U.S. food, drug, and health care system — from killing ObamaCare and all its protections, to handing over control of all health, food, and drug policies and agencies to conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy …

Here's where Harris and Trump stand on three big health care issues
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Here's where Harris and Trump stand on three big health care issues

NPR  

Here's where Harris and Trump stand on three big health care issues toggle caption Charles Rex Arbogast/AP As the 2024 election heads into its final weeks, the direction of policies affecting the health of millions of Americans is at stake. “But I think that because the negotiated prices won't go into effect until 2026, no one will miss them.” Harris …

Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on healthcare
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on healthcare

LA Times  

The fate of the Affordable Care Act. It’s little surprise, then, that both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump have pledged to bring down the cost of prescription drugs and protect Medicare. But in a campaign season that has been light on detailed proposals on health policy — which has often taken a back seat to other issues …

Kamala Harris Releases Report On Donald Trump's Health Care Agenda
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Kamala Harris Releases Report On Donald Trump's Health Care Agenda

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Kamala Harris presidential campaign just released a new health care plan. In his September debate with Harris, he said he only has “concepts of a plan.” Meanwhile, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, has indicated recently Republicans would try to pursue a “deregulatory agenda” that, among other things, would not place people “into the same insurance …

Poll Shows Conservative Health Care Agenda Unpopular Even With Republicans
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Poll Shows Conservative Health Care Agenda Unpopular Even With Republicans

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Until Donald Trump talked about his “concepts of a plan” for replacing the Affordable Care Act two weeks ago, Republicans running for office mostly avoided the subject of health care. Another item Data for Progress tested was “stopping Medicare from having the ability to negotiate lower drug prices.” That notion was also highly unpopular, with 73% opposed …

Column: We know what Trump’s ‘concepts of a plan’ on healthcare would be. They would be deadly
3 months ago

Column: We know what Trump’s ‘concepts of a plan’ on healthcare would be. They would be deadly

LA Times  

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris looks on quizzically during the Sept. 10 debate with Donald Trump after he claims to have “concepts of a plan” to replace Obamacare. It’s the revival of “risk pools,” in which people with certain preexisting medical conditions are segregated into their own insurance markets, leaving healthy applicants to enjoy lower premiums based on the lesser …

GOP Plans For Obamacare Finally Becoming Clear
3 months ago

GOP Plans For Obamacare Finally Becoming Clear

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Vance said Trump had in mind a “deregulatory agenda so that people can choose a health care plan that fits them.” Americans have different health care needs, Vance explained, so it makes sense to “promote some more choice in our …

Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term
1 year ago

Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it while in the White House, saying he is “seriously looking at alternatives” if he wins a second term. Trump’s comments drew rebuke from Democratic President Joe Biden ‘s campaign, which cast them as another “extremist” …

Healthcare coverage for millions in U.S. will turn on a debate emerging in Washington
1 year, 9 months ago

Healthcare coverage for millions in U.S. will turn on a debate emerging in Washington

LA Times  

President Biden used his State of the Union speech to bait Republicans into a fight over Medicare. Biden’s plan will “ask the wealthiest to pay a little more to ensure that this program is around for at least 25 more years for our seniors who need it,” White House budget director Shalanda Young told reporters in unveiling the spending plan …

Agonizing choices as Dems debate shrinking health care pie
3 years, 2 months ago

Agonizing choices as Dems debate shrinking health care pie

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Democrats are debating how to divide up what could be a smaller serving of health care spending in President Joe Biden’s domestic policy bill, pitting the needs of older adults who can’t afford their dentures against the plight of uninsured low-income people in the South. Health care is foundational to Biden’s $3.5 trillion domestic policy bill, which touches …

GOP needs new health care target; ‘Obamacare’ survives again
3 years, 6 months ago

GOP needs new health care target; ‘Obamacare’ survives again

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s latest rejection of a Republican effort to dismantle “Obamacare” signals anew that the GOP must look beyond repealing the law if it wants to hone the nation’s health care problems into a winning political issue. “And it’s moved from an ideological whipping boy to a set of popular benefits that the public values.” Highlighting the …

If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act, Trump’s health care order is not enough to replace it
4 years, 2 months ago

If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act, Trump’s health care order is not enough to replace it

Associated Press  

Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University The battle over the replacement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has refocused American attention on the future of the Affordable Care Act. The two factors leave me – a health policy and politics scholar who has closely followed the Affordable Care Act – skeptical about the emergence of a meaningful replacement to the ACA …

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