Modern Healthcare

By: Virgil Dickson

In health policy circles, President Donald Trump can be viewed as the other side of the same coin from his predecessor, Barack Obama. Both have caused seismic shifts in the healthcare landscape but in different ways.

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Since Trump took office, work requirements have started to be imposed on some Medicaid expansion enrollees, cost-sharing subsidies on the individual market have been canceled, risk payments to insurance companies have been turned off and then on again, funding has plummeted for navigators who help people sign up for coverage, and the penalty for noncompliance with the individual mandate was zeroed out. “The actions of the Trump administration all share a common theme: halting and reversing the historic progress the U.S. has made in reducing the ranks of the uninsured,” said Edwin Park, a Georgetown University professor of public policy.

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