{"id":13951,"date":"2019-09-04T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13951"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:56:54","slug":"trump-promises-phenomenal-health-plan-what-might-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13951","title":{"rendered":"Trump Promises \u2018Phenomenal\u2019 Health Plan. What Might That Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>While many Capitol Hill Republicans want to avoid a repeat of the Affordable Care Act repeal debate, President Donald Trump keeps promising a health plan that will be \u201cphenomenal\u201d and make the GOP \u201cthe party of health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Medicare chief Seema Verma said, \u201cWe\u2019re actively engaged in conversations\u201d on what to do. Earlier in August, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway indicated an announcement might come this month.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the pronouncements lies a conundrum: whether to stray beyond efforts underway to improve the nation\u2019s health care system \u2014 loosening insurance regulations, talking about drug prices, expanding tax-free health savings accounts \u2014 to develop an overarching plan.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/trump-phenomenal-republican-health-plan-political-strategy\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) While many Capitol Hill Republicans want to avoid a repeat of the Affordable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13952,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951\/revisions\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}