President Donald Trump on Sept. 24 laid out his vision for health care, which focuses on providing “better care, more choice, and lower costs.”
“Under the ‘America First’ health care plan, we will ensure the highest standard of care anywhere in the world,” Trump said during remarks on his health care policies in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“My plan expands affordable insurance options, reduces the cost of prescription drugs, will end surprise medical billing, increases fairness through price transparency, streamlines bureaucracy, accelerates innovation, strongly protects Medicare, and always protect patients with preexisting conditions.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar earlier announced that Trump would sign several executive orders to address concerns about preexisting conditions and surprise medical bills.
“The president is declaring that it is the policy of the United States to provide protections to ensure that Americans with preexisting conditions are protected, regardless of whether the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional and its protections for pre-existing conditions invalidated,” he said during a press call on Sept. 24.
Azar said that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare and signed into law by President Barack Obama, failed to serve U.S. patients with preexisting conditions.
“They may have the ability to purchase a plan, but it may be utterly unaffordable, given that premiums more than doubled in the four years following the ACA implementation,” he said.
“If the Supreme Court strikes out all or a large part of the Affordable Care Act, what the president is making clear in this executive order is that it is the policy of the United States that people who suffer from preexisting conditions will be protected.”…a
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