President Trump announces ‘America First Healthcare Plan’. It's a start, let's see what other details come out, and most importantly the actual cost. Here's a few of the details.
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- Repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate
- Protecting patients with pre-existing conditions
- Increase in availability of renewable, less expensive, short-term healthcare plans
- Expansion of health reimbursement arrangements
- Rule to increase the availability of association health plans for small businesses
- Expansion of health savings accounts that can be paired with tax-advantaged accounts
- Dramatic increase in the availability of telehealth services
- Repeal of Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, which would have been a group of unelected bureaucrats who could make decisions on how to cut healthcare spending
- Improvement in care for our nation’s veterans
- Additional health insurance flexibility to states that waive rigid Obamacare rules in order to expand coverage options and decrease the cost of premiums
- Promotion of innovation to allow patients to safely send their own medical records to providers of their choosing
- “Patients over Paperwork” initiative to reduce red tape for healthcare providers
- Lowered the cost of prescription drugs to the largest annual price decrease in nearly half a century
- Repeal of the medical device tax, the annual fee on health insurance providers, and the “Cadillac” tax on certain employer-sponsored health insurance
- More transparent healthcare prices for consumers
- Concrete steps to eliminate surprise medical bills
- Modernization of Medicare program.
- 35 million Medicare recipients receive $200.00 Drug Card.
- Investments in scientific research to address most pressing medical challenges
- Crackdown on waste, fraud, and abuse
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