Trump's Health Plan: Pay Your Own Medical Bills Using Money You Saved
Trump's Health Plan: Pay Your Own Medical Bills Using Money You Saved
The candidate called a special ‘meeting’ to discuss the future of medicine. Here’s how that went.
A fan displays a dollar bill at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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James Hamblin
Five disgruntled Republican physicians and one nurse warmed up the conference room at a Hilton DoubleTree hotel in Pennsylvania yesterday. All were members of the U.S. Congress, gathered for a rally that Donald Trump would call “a meeting talking about health care.”
On the day that health-insurance enrollment began for 2017, the Trump campaign chose to keep the focus on medicine. Health-insurance premiums will be increasing in exchanges for some two to five percent of Americans this year. The U.S. has the most expensive health-care system in the world and needs a great deal of improvement. The candidate has been hostile toward the current health-care system and toward Hillary Clinton’s proposals, but has offered almost nothing in the way of solutions. Perhaps today was the day for a plan.
First to the mic stepped John Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon from Wyoming. “People need a better way, and that is why we are here,” he said, setting the stage. “There is a better way than Obamacare.” He said that he believes that “government is the problem” and that Hillary Clinton is proposing “more Obamacare,” though it was unclear what part of the system he was referring to. “Republicans are here today to offer solutions,” he said.
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The candidate called a special ‘meeting’ to discuss the future of medicine. Here’s how that went.
A fan displays a dollar bill at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Matt Rourke / AP
James Hamblin
Five disgruntled Republican physicians and one nurse warmed up the conference room at a Hilton DoubleTree hotel in Pennsylvania yesterday. All were members of the U.S. Congress, gathered for a rally that Donald Trump would call “a meeting talking about health care.”
On the day that health-insurance enrollment began for 2017, the Trump campaign chose to keep the focus on medicine. Health-insurance premiums will be increasing in exchanges for some two to five percent of Americans this year. The U.S. has the most expensive health-care system in the world and needs a great deal of improvement. The candidate has been hostile toward the current health-care system and toward Hillary Clinton’s proposals, but has offered almost nothing in the way of solutions. Perhaps today was the day for a plan.
First to the mic stepped John Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon from Wyoming. “People need a better way, and that is why we are here,” he said, setting the stage. “There is a better way than Obamacare.” He said that he believes that “government is the problem” and that Hillary Clinton is proposing “more Obamacare,” though it was unclear what part of the system he was referring to. “Republicans are here today to offer solutions,” he said.
READ MORE: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive...
