Larry Levitt
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Your Money, Your Vote: Making Healthcare More Affordable · 6 Oct 2024
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Well, there were a lot of twists and turns when it came to the Affordable Care Act under the Trump administration.
On day one, Trump as president vowed to repeal the ACA.
There was a very contentious and complex effort in Congress to repeal and replace the ACA in 2017, which ultimately failed.
Much of what Trump did was stopped in the courts, but there were a couple healthcare policies he put in place that were quite bipartisan.
One was making healthcare prices more transparent.
So hospitals now are required to disclose the prices.
They charge patients and then they negotiate with insurance companies.
Insurance companies themselves are also now required to make the prices they pay for health care transparent.
That's got bipartisan support.
It's still very complicated.
I mean, accessing these prices is incredibly complex for patients, but the prices are out there for people to see.
There was also legislation passed during the Trump administration, which President Trump signed, which prohibited surprise medical bills for consumers.
So the
These are bills, you know, you go to an emergency room, you end up seeing a physician who's out of your network, or you go in for outpatient surgery, an anesthesiologist is out of your network, and you get this surprise bill.
Those are now prohibited.
Trump has also flirted again with trying to repeal and replace the ACA.
He said in the debate with Harris that he has the concepts of a plan and that we would see that plan soon.
I have concepts of a plan.
So much of what Biden has done on health care was undoing a lot of what Trump did.
And that was a whole range of things.
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