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Trump Report Card-Midpoint Year 1 Donald Trump has been POTUS for half of his first year and this article reviews what his cabinet has accomplished and the direct impacts on you. President Trump�s opinions and omissions do create harmful consequences as this report card illustrates. What�s at Stake Cabinet Member Perspectives Analysis Your Health The Secretary of Health and Human Services controls the following agencies: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Food and Drug Administration, administers the Affordable Care Act, and grants more money for medical research than any other agency in the world. Tom Price, Republican from Georgia, He is an orthopedic surgeon, and represents one of the healthcare sectors with expensive medical devices and lucrative profit margins for health systems. Resentful of the 3% medical device tax his industry pays to fund the Affordable Care Act for low-income Americans. Wants to get rid of Obama Care and replace it with another ...

Does Your State Help or Hinder Your Access to Quality Health Care? This article reviews state health care laws impacting clinical care and resourcing in light of the Accountable Care Act and the needs for primary health care. The recent articles in the academic Health Affairs Journal and by the nonprofit advocacy group, The Commonwealth Fund, address the issue of market competition in health care delivery and the impact on services as well as the potential for anti-trust issues. Anti-trust occurs when a single health care entity or a consortium of providers exerts enough control of the market in a given geographic region, to dictate prices, and to be able to perform in an atmosphere where the consumers have fewer choices. In other words, to charge more without offering an improvement in service. Now, with that in mind, some of the state laws that throw a monkey wrench into this idea of a competitive marketplace for health care are; certificate of need requirements, any-willing-provide...

Ten Things Health Care Consumers May Not Know About the Accountable Care Act The Accountable Care Act is perhaps the most meaningful of the 2010 health care reform mandates and a number of health care organizations have completed their first year in the program. This article highlights some of the consumer protection and cost cutting mandates and reveals the impetus for each element. 1- Application of evidence-based medical care, as a means to evaluate and pay for health services   One of the results of the fifty-state, private payer national health care panorama is there are a lot of differences in patient care patterns, with some doctors ignoring the evidence based recommendations of national organizations, which result in disparate clinical outcomes. This means significant variances in patient deaths, re-admission rates for hospitalizations following treatment, and medical complications. An example of this phenomenon is in cardiac care, which has expanded the application of th...