How The Trump Administration Is Reforming Medicare | Health Affairs

“This 124-page document challenges a premise behind 50 years of thinking in health policy circles: that our most serious problems in health care arise because of flaws in the private sector. Most problems arise because of government failure, not market failure, the document declares, and it goes into great detail on how to correct the policy errors.

Trump policy toward health care appears to be based on the idea of promoting choice, competition, and the role of market prices. In Medicare, so far that means liberating telemedicine and accountable care organizations (ACOs), ending payment incentives that are driving doctors to become hospital employees, promoting hospital price transparency, reducing regulatory paperwork, and creating more transparency in the market for prescription drugs.”

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190501.529581/full/

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