Healthcare played a central and arguably unprecedented role in the 2016 presidential election cycle. Repealing and replacing The Affordable Care act, a.k.a. “Obamacare”, was a staple of President-elect Trump’s campaign platform — so what will happen to the controversial healthcare law when Mr. Trump assumes office in January? Two of the Trump administration’s Cabinet appointments this past week could provide some clues.
Trump nominated orthopedic surgeon and six-term congressman, Tom Price (R-GA) to serve as Health and Human Services Secretary. A vocal opponent of Obamacare, Mr. Price is often referred to as one of the few people who has actually read the legislation in its entirety and proposed an alternative on how to provide coverage. He “promoted a se
ries of largely market-based substitutes to overcome what he has described as ‘oppressive’ federal government strictures and runaway costs,” according to The Fiscal Times. Will this be the approach the Trump administration takes?
On the Medicare front, healthcare consultant Seema Verma has been tapped to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Verma brings experience and deep knowledge to the job. She is the architect of the Healthy Indiana Plan, the nation’s first consumer directed Medicaid program launched under Governor Mitch Daniels and worked closely with Governor Mike Pence in designing the state’s Medicaid expansion program — Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0.
With two picks that have broad and deep knowledge of their policy area, what can we expect in the coming months? To become part of the national discourse on this issue and brush up on many of the controversial or problematic provisions of Obamacare, review The Policy Circle’s “Healthcare 2016” brief.
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