Trump deregulation efforts benefited Health Care greatly
Here is what everyone was missing: Marie Fishpaw and I were not writing about what we should do. We were mainly writing about what had already been done. These were remarkable changes – radical deregulation of the entire health care industry, in fact – that Donald Trump never talked about. And, sorry to say, on the way out the door the Trump administration was still not saying very much. Donald Trump’s most important domestic policy accomplishments were in the area of deregulation. And no industry was more impactfully deregulated than health care.
A missed opportunity. Donald Trump not only failed to campaign on these and other important health reforms, he missed the opportunity to make the case for finishing the job. All of these accomplishments are temporary. In some cases, they are emergency measures tied to Covid. When the virus goes away, for example, the ability of seniors to talk to their doctor by phone also goes away. In other cases, the reforms were the result of executive orders that can be reversed by president Biden or some future president. What the Trump administration did for health care is one of the best-kept secrets in America. Donald Trump himself is the reason for that.
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