07-27-2018, 01:22 AM
First, see here on their efforts to repeal the ACA and the alternatives they proposed. Now the full repeal has gone sour (at least for now), there are some alternatives the Trump government is working on (apart from sabotaging the ACA).
Association healthcare plans is one such alternative, but as usual, Trump is talking out of his..
Association healthcare plans is one such alternative, but as usual, Trump is talking out of his..
Quote:During a roundtable event on workforce development in Iowa on Thursday, President Trump touted association health care plans. “[Secretary of Labor] Alex Acosta has come up with incredible health care plans through the Department of Labor, association plans, where you associate, where you have groups, and you go out and get tremendous health care at a very small cost,” Trump said. “It is across state lines. You can compete all over the country, they compete, they want to get it.” Association health plans are not required to cover basic health benefits, leaving many open to high costs and little protection. “And Alex, I hear it’s like record business that they’re doing,” Trump continued. “We just opened about two months ago and I’m hearing that the numbers are incredible, the numbers of people that are getting really, really good health care, instead of Obamacare, which is a disaster.” There’s just one problem — association health plans won’t even be available until September 1 at the earliest, so Trump’s claim about “record business” is a complete fabrication. The White House announced the creation of such plans on June 19.Trump’s poor grasp of health care policy was on full display in Iowa – ThinkProgress
As the New York Times puts it, the availability of such plans could “draw healthy people out of the Affordable Care Act marketplace, driving up costs for those who need comprehensive insurance.” Trump, however, has repeatedly insisted association plans will provide “tremendous health care.”